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The FDA has long erred on the side of extreme caution when it comes to sharing confidential commercial information and trade secrets out of fear it might violate federal law by disclosing them. Read More
The FDA has developed an AI tool to help its drug application reviewers and researchers identify changes to adverse event (AE) terms made when a drug’s labeling is updated. Read More
With the House and Senate now in recess until Sept. 9, the FDA is once again facing into a new fiscal year unsure of its funding from Congress. Read More
Despite a mostly lukewarm reception to phase 2/3 trial findings, the FDA’s Genetic Metabolic Diseases Advisory Committee voted 11-5 in support of approving Zevra Therapeutics’ arimoclomol for type C Niemann-Pick disease in patients age two years and up. Read More
During the second session of the 118th Congress, FDAnews will track important pending legislation, that has been acted on by Dec. 31, 2023 to keep you updated on laws and regulations that could impact your business. Read More
A recently published study of new drugs approved by the FDA from 1995 to 2014 showed that sales of most products (75 percent) exceeded the industry-wide costs of development within 10 years. Read More
In an effort to improve access to clinical research in the US and ease enrollment challenges, the Milken Institute has published a new report focusing on distance as a barrier to trial participation, digging deep into demographics and distribution of trials across US counties, as well as offering an interactive map tool filterable by therapeutic area. Read More
This edition of Quick Notes includes EU approval of Pfizer’s hemophilia B gene therapy Durveqtix, a positive EMA opinion on an expanded label for Wegovy, two new EMA draft guidelines on oligonucleotides and active substances, and an EMA paper on the data needed to show the equivalence of nasal products that contain the same active molecule. Read More
A Baxter Healthcare drug manufacturing plant in Marion, N.C., has been hit with another Form 483 after an FDA inspection early in the year revealed more deficiencies, including two that remain unresolved from prior inspections. Read More
Immediately after the FDA rejected Novartis’s 2022 citizen petition for the agency to refrain from approving generic versions of its cardiac drug Entresto (sacubitril and valsartan), the company has filed a lawsuit against the FDA for approval of a generic version. Read More
Manufacturers of drugs, biologics and medical devices should be harnessing real-world data (RWD) at the postmarket stage, not just to support regulatory compliance but to generate ideas for innovative new products or indications, according to a former FDA official. Read More