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The UK’s healthcare costs regulator is asking Santen Pharmaceutical to provide more information on its Ikervis eye drops following a preliminary recommendation denying its use for the treatment of severe keratitis in adults with dry eye disease that didn’t improve with tear substitutes. Read More
The Canadian government plans to require mandatory reporting of drug shortages, in a move that will bring it in line with U.S. and European shortages policies. Read More
The amount of sodium contained as an excipient in drugs should be readily available in an understandable format on product labels and package leaflets, the European Medicines Agency says. Read More
The House Appropriations Committee is proposing $2.6 billion in new funding for the FDA, roughly $200 million less than President Barack Obama requested, but no changes to the administration’s proposed user fee levels for drugs and biologics — which total about $1.2 billion. Read More
The Congressional Budget Office is estimating that provisions in the proposed drug overhaul bill, if implemented by the FDA, would cost $872 million from 2016-2020, according to a report issued Tuesday. Read More
Democratic members of the House Energy & Commerce Committee are pressing the FDA to expand the black box warning on extended-release opioids to include immediate-release versions of the painkillers as well. Read More
Orexigen Therapeutics and Takeda filed a patent infringement suit in federal court aimed at blocking Actavis from marketing a generic version of their anti-obesity drug Contrave. Read More