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The House Energy and Commerce Committee marked up two dozen health and technology bills this week, sending them to the House floor for consideration — including one aimed at bolstering the drug supply chain. Read More
The anti-Aduhelm uproar consuming the Alzheimer’s community is due to a campaign of “extensive misinformation and misunderstanding,” Biogen executives claim. Read More
Three major opioids distributors — McKesson, Cardinal Health and AmerisourceBergen — and drugmaker Johnson & Johnson (J&J) have reached an historic $26 billion settlement agreement with state attorneys general over their role in allegedly fueling the nation’s opioid epidemic. Read More
The FDA has placed a clinical hold on Magenta Therapeutics’ Investigational New Drug (IND) application for its leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome drug candidate, MGTA-117. Read More
Acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock told members of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions yesterday that the FDA was simply doing what the Congress had instructed when it granted an accelerated approval of Biogen’s Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm (aducanumab). Read More
Developing a good working relationship with your regulatory project manager (RPM) at the FDA is “the single most important thing you can do” to improve communication during a regulatory review, an agency official said yesterday at the FDA’s Regulatory Education for Industry (REdI) Annual Conference. Read More
Canadian generics manufacturer Apotex has agreed to pay the state of Texas $26 million to settle charges that the company reported inflated drug prices to the state’s Medicaid program for more than 30 years. Read More
New York state has reached a $1.1 billion settlement with three large drug distributors for their alleged roles in the opioid crisis, and a separate $26 billion settlement of thousands of related opioid lawsuits across multiple states is expected within days. Read More