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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
In this edition of Quick Notes, AstraZeneca nabs a new indication for a severe asthma drug, Alvotech and Teva win FDA approval for a Stelara biosimilar, Takeda secures approval for a maintenance therapy for Crohn’s disease, Lumicell’s drug-device imaging combination for breast cancer wins regulatory clearance, and Roche’s lung cancer adjuvant therapy snags an FDA nod. Read More
Stagnant liquid inside an air purification unit, hundreds of complaints on tablet counts and inadequate guidance to call centers are but a few of the litany of issues outlined in the FDA’s Form 483 levied on India-based Sun Pharmaceuticals. Read More
To detect, prevent and manage medicine shortages in the EU and European Economic Area (EEA), the European Medicines Agency (EMA) will create a new system to gather information about medicine supply and demand. Read More
The fact that China manufactures almost all of the active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) used to make drugs for Americans could be a threat to national security, according to FDA Commissioner Robert Califf. Read More