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Drugmakers and distributors are asking the FDA to delay strict enforcement of federal track-and-trace requirements, since most companies won’t be able to meet the first deadlines for exchanging transaction data. Read More
Indian Cabinet Secretary Ajit Seth and other top Indian officials today are laying a framework to begin discussions about intellectual property rights with U.S. drugmakers, a number of whom have lost patent protection in India in recent months. Read More
The European Medicines Agency said late last week that additional drugs have been diverted in a still unfolding case of product tampering that began with stolen vials of the cancer drug Herceptin (trastuzumab). Read More
The FDA has approved GlaxoSmithKline and Genmab’s Arzerra and Leukeran as a first-line combination treatment for the most common form of blood and bone marrow cancer. Read More
Opko Health said Thursday it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Israeli-based Inspiro Medical, giving the drugmaker a delivery vehicle for its respiratory therapies. Read More
Indian drugmaker Lupin Pharmaceuticals is voluntarily recalling three lots of its flagship cephalosporin oral antibiotic Suprax after the drug failed to meet specification in total impurities at the nine-month stability mark. Read More
Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has set a September deadline for companies to adopt a common technical document format for OTC regulatory submissions. Read More
A UK coalition of drugmakers and a cancer research group are launching an analysis of failed Phase III lung cancer drug trials that will search for treatments that, despite failing overall, are effective for certain subpopulations. Read More
Israeli drugmaker Teva announced Thursday it has reached a settlement with Pfizer to hold back marketing generic Celebrex (celecoxib) in the U.S. until December. Read More
The Justice Department’s crackdown on drugmakers that violate the False Claims Act continues, with Astellas’ U.S. division paying $7.3 million to settle claims it improperly marketed Mycamine. Read More