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New Hampshire’s attorney general is investigating whether some opioid manufacturers knowingly misled doctors and patients about their drugs’ safety and benefits, causing the state to pay for potentially dangerous and unnecessary opioid prescriptions. Read More
President Barack Obama late Wednesday was expected to sign a measure to fund the federal government at fiscal year 2015 levels through Dec. 11, thereby averting a government shutdown. Read More
Despite having been closed for more than a year with no plan to reopen, the FDA issued a warning letter to Specialty Medicine Compounding Pharmacy for a litany of cGMP violations, including poor sterile processing controls. Read More
Despite its lucrative promise, the FDA’s priority review voucher program has done little to spur development of novel treatments for tropical and rare pediatric diseases, a new study in JAMA concludes. 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The European Medicines Agency has released draft guidance explaining how drugmakers can use pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic analyses to hasten the development and review of new antibiobics. Read More
Roche’s ocrelizumab proved effective in treating primary progressive multiple sclerosis in a Phase 3 study, making it the first investigational drug to show positive results for both PPMS and relapsing remitting MS. Read More
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has invalidated a patent for Novartis’ multiple sclerosis drug Gilenya, in one of the first successful uses of the inter partes review process by generics drugmakers. Read More