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An EU-level court has established a precedent that would allow drugmakers to protect orphan drugs from generic competition by developing and patenting a similar drug for the same orphan indications while the original therapy still enjoys market exclusivity. Read More
Biologics makers should file their lot distribution reports using the same electronic messaging standard as is used for drug registration and labeling content of BLAs, FDA final guidance says. Read More
Indian officials are accusing FDA investigators of inspecting drug manufacturers in the country without Indian inspectors present, violating an agreement between the two countries that calls for local regulators to tag along on FDA drug manufacturing inspections as observers. Read More
With the FDA stepping up scrutiny of data integrity during facility inspections, drugmakers must be ready to answer tough questions about their electronic record system, an inspections expert said. Read More
Nothing is stopping Sandoz from launching the first U.S. biosimilar, now that a federal judge has denied Amgen’s bid for an injunction blocking the alternate version of its blockbuster chemotherapy product Neupogen. Read More
The FDA and Department of Justice are pursuing prosecutions of several international drugmakers for serious manufacturing quality violations, underscoring the agency’s increasing tendency to treat quality violations as fraud. Read More
Hundreds of children as young as two years old will now be able to get Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ game-changing cystic fibrosis treatment, following FDA approval Thursday. Read More
Janssen’s blockbuster Xarelto is the target of another liability lawsuit, this time by 12 plaintiffs in California federal court who claim the blood thinner caused gastrointestinal bleeding. Read More