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GenBioPro, the only U.S. maker of the generic version of the abortion pill mifepristone, has sued the FDA, HHS and DOJ in an effort to protect the company from regulatory action that could withdraw or limit FDA approval of its drug based on recent court rulings. Read More
The FDA’s latest proposed trial design for evaluating the effectiveness of opioids as chronic pain treatments was met with backlash from pain management and anesthesiology experts who contend the protocol is flawed on multiple fronts. Read More
The FDA would like to have the regulatory authority to restrict new opioid approvals to those that are safer than already-approved and marketed opioids, Commissioner Robert Califf told senators at a hearing discussing the agency’s 2024 budget request. Read More
In a new interview posted to its website, top officials in the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) highlight key benefits of the Guidance Snapshot Pilot Program, which aims to make the agency’s often byzantine and highly technical guidance documents more accessible to a wide range of stakeholders. Read More
The top citations in FDA warning letters tend not to change radically from one year to the next, but the agency’s warning letters for fiscal 2022 hint at an increased focus on component testing and contractor oversight. Read More
Going back to pre-2016 restrictions around the abortion drug Mifeprex — which a federal appeals court now seeks to do — would set off a cascade of problems that could take months, if not longer, to work out and cause the drug to be misbranded in the meantime, according to FDA Principal Deputy Commissioner Janet Woodcock. Read More
CDER’s Office of New Drugs (OND) Director Peter Stein is a nationally recognized leader in pharmaceutical research and development. Before joining the FDA in 2016 as OND deputy director he was a vice president at Merck Research Laboratories and formerly a vice president at Janssen. Read More
The White House said Thursday that it will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to step in to defend the FDA’s 22-year-old decision to approve the abortion drug mifepristone after an appeals court denied the Justice Department’s request to allow full access to the drug on Wednesday. Read More
Bluebird Bio’s lovotibeglogene autotemcel (lovo-cel) and Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ exagamglogene autotemcel (exa-cel) gene therapies for severe sickle cell disease (SCD) would probably be cost-effective if priced around $2 million, according to a draft review by the Institute for Clinical Evaluation and Research (ICER). Read More