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Over the past week, the FDA issued a final rule to amend the device current good manufacturing practice (CGMP) requirements of the Quality System (QS) regulation. Final guidances were issued on chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR T) products, human gene therapy products and individual patient expanded access applications. Draft guidance was issued on collection of race and ethnicity data in clinical trials. Read More
A new non-opioid pain killer holds promise in phase 3 trials, a gene therapy restores hearing lose, a GI cancer trial succeeds, and mushrooms may hold promise in treating pancreatic cancer in this month’s edition of Research Roundup. Read More
Lapses in digital security, missed report deadlines, and a complete lack of quality oversight earned manufacturers some notable 483s. And here’s a first: How about getting written up for being too clean? Read More
The FDA has issued a revised version of its Biosimilar User Fee Amendment (BsUFA) Research Roadmap and a list of guidances CBER plans to issue during 2024, both intended to clarify the agency’s priorities for 2024. Read More
Establishing the magnitude of the Philips Respironics recall, the FDA has announced that since April 2021, the agency has received more than 116,000 medical device reports (MDR), including 561 reports of deaths, associated with the breakdown of the polyester-based polyurethane (PE-PUR) foam used in the company’s ventilators, BiPAP machines, and CPAP machines. Read More
The FDA will have to exponentially ramp up its hiring to properly understand and regulate quickly developing AI and the many ways it’s poised to change development of drugs and devices, said FDA Commissioner Robert Califf. Read More
Biogen is officially pulling the plug on Aduhelm, the controversial antiamyloid antibody that dragged the company through a Congressional investigation, spurred the resignation of a top FDA official, and crashed in ignominy. Read More
Thirty-five amicus briefs on the issue of the FDA’s approval of the abortion drug mifepristone landed in the Supreme Court of U.S. on Tuesday, all in support of the FDA’s position, from submitters ranging from single associations to groups with more than 600 members. Read More
Responding to changes required by the 21st Century Cures Act, the FDA has unveiled its principles for post market surveillance of drug safety in the final version of a 2019 draft on the subject. Read More