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In a widely expected move, the Drug Enforcement Administration has clamped down on misuse of hydrocodone combination products (HCPs) by classifying them as Schedule II controlled substances, a designation that already applies to oxycodone and non-combo hydrocodone painkillers. Read More
Hospira has won a temporary restraining order blocking Mylan from marketing a generic version of its sedative Precedex, which the FDA authorized this week under the controversial section viii statement pathway that foregoes a patent challenge and instead allows manufacturers to “carve out” indications not protected by patents. Read More
The FDA slapped an Indian manufacturer with a warning letter for creating phony records, falsifying training tests and failing to clean up a moldy and insect-infested facility. Read More
In an unusual case, Novo Nordisk agreed this week to pay $89,315 to Danish authorities to settle allegations it didn’t disclose the FDA’s rejection of two insulin products fast enough. Read More
Eli Lilly and Boehringer Ingelheim have won tentative FDA approval for their insulin product Basaglar, which is considered the biosimilar of a Sanofi product in Europe but is being reviewed as its own NDA in the United States. Read More
French drugmaker Sanofi is set to distribute large quantities of its new semisynthetic artemisinin malaria combination drug to six countries in which the mosquito-borne disease is endemic, a move that could address nearly one third of the global need. Read More
Generic versions of Depomed’s shingles drug Gralise are unlikely in the near future after a federal judge sided with the brand manufacturer’s patent infringement suit against a 2012 ANDA filed by Actavis. Read More
Gilead Sciences may continue marketing its blockbuster hepatitis C drug Sovaldi after winning a dispute with rival drugmaker Roche over rights to the expensive new therapy. Read More
The UK’s health cost-benefit agency has rejected Janssen’s prostate cancer drug Zytiga for use before chemotherapy, asserting it is unclear how much the therapy actually extends life, a decision the drugmaker plans to appeal. Read More