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NHS England will no longer pay for 16 cancer drugs, including products made by Roche, Celgene, Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Novartis, Johnson & Johnson and Bayer, after the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence deemed them not cost-effective. Read More
The International Conference on Harmonisation has issued first-ever quantitative guidance on the evaluation and control of mutagenic impurities in medicines to limit potential cancer risk. Read More
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has banned imports of drugs made at Mumbai, India-based Polydrug Laboratories, marking the latest development in ongoing issues involving Indian manufacturers. Read More
The European Medicines Agency has released draft guidance explaining how drugmakers can use pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic analyses to hasten the development and review of new antibiotics. Read More
European drugmakers are pressing regulators to streamline the conditional marketing authorization pathway for drugs that fulfill unmet needs, saying the current system is slower than the standard authorization process. Read More
Brazil’s Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária is facing criticism from the medical device industry for hiking surveillance inspection fees as the country faces tough economic times. Read More
The European Medicines Agency has nominated Guido Rasi as its executive director, nearly one year after he was forced to resign from the position. Read More
U.S. President Obama announced Sept. 15 his intention to nominate Robert Califf as the next commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, capping a swift rise for the respected clinical researcher, who assumed the agency’s number two role — deputy commissioner for tobacco and medical products — in March. Read More
Yet another Indian drugmaker has been dinged for serious data integrity and GMP issues — this time during a June 4 to 7 inspection by the World Health Organization. Read More