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In a nod to the increasing potential of demonstrating drug/biologic safety and/or effectiveness through noninterventional studies, the FDA has published long-awaited draft guidance on designing and analyzing such studies with real-world data (RWD) in mind. Read More
Medicare coverage of anti-obesity medications (AOM) — now CMS approved for cardiac patients — could drive up the federal deficit over the next decade, according to a new report issued by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Read More
The EU’s Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee (ENVI) has supported a legislative proposal that would grant up to 7.5 years of regulatory data privacy to pharmaceutical companies developing new drugs, effectively trimming six months of protection from the current eight years for some products. Read More
An FDA proposed rule will establish criteria the agency will use to create two lists — drug products and categories of drug products — that present demonstrable difficulties for compounding (DDC Lists) and identify three categories of drug products on both DDC Lists. Read More
Recommendations for drug sponsors to assess the impact of impaired renal function on pharmacokinetics (PK) and/or pharmacodynamics (PD) of an investigational drug, how to determine the recommended dosage, and how to provide appropriate labeling are the subjects of a recently released FDA final guidance. Read More
Lenmeldy (atidarsagene autotemcel) manufacturer Orchard Therapeutics received approval from the FDA as the first gene therapy indicated for the treatment of children with pre-symptomatic late infantile/early juvenile or early symptomatic early juvenile metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD). Read More
Four units within the FDA have worked together to publish a paper to provide greater transparency on how they will collaborate with the pharmaceutical industry as it develops and deploys AI technologies. Read More
The FDA has issued a final guidance on the process generic drug manufacturers can use to correspond with the agency on generic drug development, the agency’s process for responding and for manufacturers to clarify ambiguities in what the FDA refers to as “controlled correspondence.” Read More
In a 12 to 2 vote Thursday, an FDA advisory committee gave a thumbs up to Geron Corporation’s imetelstat for treating transfusion-dependent (TD) anemia in adults with low-to-intermediate-1 risk myelodysplastic syndromes (LR-MDS), who are ineligible or don’t respond to erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs). Read More
The FDA’s legislative wish list for FY 2025 includes proposals to protect drug supply resiliency, amend the Hatch-Waxman Act, and exercise greater control over recalls. Read More
Par Pharmaceutical, a subsidiary of Endo International, announced a voluntary recall of one lot of treprostinil injection 20mg/20mL due to the potential for the presence of silicone particulates in the product solution. Read More