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A Senate committee has demanded answers from Danish pharma Novo Nordisk on what it labels “astronomically” high prices for the company’s Ozempic/Wegovy (semaglutide) diabetes/weight loss drugs, while a report points to weight loss drugs as the driver for a massive spike in drug spending. Read More
The FDA is soliciting input from interested parties on policy topics the CDER Office of Clinical Pharmacology (OCP) could develop and implement to support drug development programs. Read More
Most postmarketing requirements (PMR) and postmarketing commitments (PMC) for NDAs and BLAs were on-schedule in 2022, according to figures just released by the FDA. Read More
Answers to questions biologics companies may have when developing promotional communications for prescription biologics including reference products, biosimilars, and interchangeable biosimilars have been issued by the FDA in a revised draft guidance. Read More
Peter Marks, director of CBER, is pushing to get more gene therapies targeting rare diseases to apply for accelerated approval (AA) to give the promising space a leg up in development. Read More
Identifying and reducing production and delivery vulnerabilities are the focus of the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) recent recommendations to ensure the availability of medicines identified as critical. Read More
Allergan must still face allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by incentivizing physicians to prescribe off-label Botox for pediatric migraine, although a federal circuit court judge dismissed charges that the company defrauded Medicare by promoting the practice. Read More
Yet-to-be-finalized, a proposed FDA rule to update and condense prescription medication guides for consumers, will replace current prescription info that the agency says is confusing, repetitive and conflicting — potentially resulting in patients taking medications incorrectly. Read More
The Department of Justice (DOJ), HHS and the FTC have jointly launched a public-facing portal for reporting unfair and anticompetitive practices that the Biden administration says will support its efforts to lower healthcare and prescription drug costs. Read More