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House Democrats passed the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill yesterday in an 220-211 vote along party lines, sending the legislation to President Biden’s desk for signing on Thursday. Read More
EU member states increasingly frustrated with the speed of vaccine rollouts are going it alone through separate authorizations and side deals for vaccines from Russia and China. Read More
Eli Lilly said its combination antibody therapy, bamlanivimab and etesevimab, reduced the risk of hospitalization and death by 87 percent in a late-stage study of 769 high-risk COVID-19 patients — and worked against emerging variant strains of the coronavirus. Read More
Novartis subsidiary Sandoz is suing the FDA over the new chemical entity (NCE) exclusivity it granted Sanofi’s multiple sclerosis drug Aubagio (teriflunomide), alleging the five-year protection it gave was unlawful and wrongly kept Sandoz’s generic teriflunomide from being reviewed by the agency. Read More
San Diego, Calif.-based Acadia Pharmaceuticals has received a notification of deficiencies from the FDA regarding its supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for Nuplazid (pimavanserin), an anti-psychosis drug being reviewed for treating dementia-related hallucinations and delusions. Read More
The FDA’s Oncology Center for Excellence is scrutinizing Accelerated Approvals granted for cancer indications in an initiative that’s led to multiple indication withdrawals by companies whose late-stage trials failed to meet primary endpoints. Read More
The Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine demonstrated effectiveness against a Brazilian coronavirus strain that has quickly spread throughout the country, a study has found. Read More