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Eli Lilly announced on Monday that it has received its second FDA complete response letter (CRL) related to findings from an inspection of the third-party contract manufacturing organization, this time for production of the company’s eczema drug, Lebrikizumab. Read More
Only about half of drug manufacturers have systems that comply with what regulatory bodies want to see in Quality Risk Management (QRM) — though the FDA and the International Council for Harmonisation (ICH) both released updated guidance on the topic earlier this year, said Beth Slater, industry veteran and founder and president of consulting firm Quality Confidential. Read More
A government shut down as of midnight on Saturday — the end of the fiscal year — appears likely as partisan disagreements about federal discretionary spending rage on with no clear end in sight. Read More
Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) has filed a motion for summary judgment in its case against HHS objecting to the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) drug price negotiation program, claiming that the undisputed material facts entitle BI to judgment as a matter of law. Read More
Recommendations on labeling of injectable prescription drug product information submitted in an NDA or certain BLAs is the subject of an FDA guidance on dose banding. Read More
Around the same time AstraZeneca was signing its price negotiation agreement with CMS for its diabetes drug Farxiga, which is included in the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) first list of Medicare Part D high cost drugs, the company was also filing a motion for summary judgment for the courts to declare the IRA unconstitutional. Read More
Royal Philips has denied reports that it withheld evidence of sleep and respiratory ventilator product malfunctions for more than a decade, arguing that recent media articles mischaracterize the Amsterdam-based devicemaker’s safety history. Read More
Our coverage includes EMA’s revocation of conditional marketing authorization for Blenrep, FDA approvals for Pfizer’s Bosulif and Viatris/Ocuphire Pharma Ryzumvi, and the FY 2024 priority review voucher fee rate. Read More
Drugmakers have netted a whopping $185 billion from just four mega-blockbusters by leveraging patent thickets — the filing of overlapping patents to artificially extend a drug’s intellectual property protections to block generic competition — says a new report from the Initiative for Medicines, Access and Knowledge (I-MAK). Read More
Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) has struck an agreement with CMS to negotiate the price of its blood thinner medication Eliquis (apixaban) ahead of the Oct. 1 deadline, the drugmaker confirmed to FDAnews Wednesday. Read More