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The FDA wants manufacturers of low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) products to do a better job of assessing immunogenicity risk before submitting their products for approval. Read More
The FDA chastised another Indian drugmaker for poor quality, this time warning active pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturer Smruthi Organics for not protecting raw data and blending out-of-specification batches of API with conforming batches. Read More
A federal court tentatively approved a $60 million payout by Hospira to end a class-action lawsuit that claimed the drugmaker misled investors about its quality problems. Read More
Mylan is accusing Celgene of violating federal antitrust law by prohibiting the generic drugmaker from obtaining samples of its blockbuster products Thalomid and Revlimid to make generic versions. Read More
Drugmakers seeking variations to marketing authorizations in the EU will now have a point person assigned to usher their applications through the evaluation process, the European Medicines Agency says. Read More
Drugmakers must now give Brazil’s ANVISA a full year’s warning before withdrawing a product from the market if the withdrawal could result in a drug shortage. Read More
Teva Pharmaceuticals asked U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts Tuesday to recall and stay a July 2013 appeals court ruling invalidating a patent on Teva’s blockbuster multiple sclerosis drug Copaxone, pending the full court’s final decision on the patent case. Read More
Republican lawmakers April 1 blasted CDER Director Janet Woodcock for the FDA’s consulting with trial attorneys and not brand or generic drugmakers when developing a controversial proposed overhaul of generic drug labeling rules. Read More
The FDA needs to hold more presubmission meetings with generic drugmakers on topics such as stability, batch size and drug release specifications to speed up the ANDA approval process, industry representatives say. Read More
Alkermes says its once-monthly injectable version of the antipsychotic blockbuster Abilify met its endpoints in a Phase III trial, setting it up for an NDA filing with the FDA sometime in the third quarter. Read More