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To try to avoid a government shutdown, the House has voted to extend the continuing resolution that’s funding the government through March 11. Read More
After hundreds of hours with a court-appointed mediator, the Sackler family appears ready to contribute more than the $4.3 billion they previously pledged in their settlement over the opioid crisis on behalf of their company, Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin. Read More
Drug companies with a candidate nonopioid analgesic should consider applying for expedited review through FDA’s special approval pathways, according to new draft guidance released yesterday. Read More
The FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) plans to publish almost 100 new and revised draft guidances this year, according to the center’s 2022 guidance agenda — about two-thirds of which were previously on CDER’s 2021 agenda. Read More
The FDA outlined clinical pharmacology considerations for developers of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) in a draft guidance released yesterday. Read More
It appears the end has come for Jacobus Pharmaceutical’s Ruzurgi, a potassium channel blocker that had received an Orphan Drug designation from the FDA for treatment of Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS) in children age six to 16, but had yet to be approved. Read More
Two research groups at odds over who invented the game-changing CRISPR gene-editing technology appeared before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on Friday to argue their cases. Read More