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Brand manufacturer Mayne Pharma and Warner Chilcott, U.S. marketer of Mayne’s acne drug Doryx, have moved to settle class action claims with third party purchasers that allege the two companies inappropriately delayed generic competition on the product. Read More
Baxter is voluntarily recalling four lots of intravenous solutions in response to customer complaints of plastic and fiber particles in the product, its fourth recall this year related to particulates. Read More
Compounding pharmacy JCB Laboratories has been hit with an FDA warning letter for failing to properly package and store vials of the powerful anesthetic Propoven. Read More
The FDA has slapped a warning on an Italian active pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturer for deleting quality data, the latest indication the agency is serious about clamping down on poor manufacturing data integrity. Read More
Sponsors designing trials involving certain vulnerable patient populations such as limited or non-English speakers, dementia or traumatic brain injury sufferers and children will soon face greater scrutiny from institutional review boards under newly issued FDA guidance. Read More
The FDA intends to step up its scrutiny of a company’s data integrity protections during manufacturing inspections, following a series of investigations that caught drugmakers backdating manufacturing records and falsifying data. Read More
Drugmakers are facing tougher hurdles in getting new cancer drugs covered in the UK, according to a U.S industry trade group. But some observers and UK government officials counter that the majority of these expensive treatments are still being widely reimbursed, even if they come with some restrictions. Read More
Massachusetts-based Cubist Pharmaceuticals is suing Fresenius Kabi over its proposed generic version of Cubist’s profitable antibiotic Cubicin. Read More
The FTC gave generics makers a boost last month in their fight to stop brand drugmakers from using REMS restrictions to block access to sample drugs the generics industry needs to prepare ANDAs. Read More
SAN DIEGO — The FDA is racing to beat a fall deadline to release a string of new guidances for generics makers that it hopes will head off a potential torrent of rejected submissions. Read More