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Generic drugmakers Apotex, Heritage and Breckenridge have agreed to settle for a combined $45 million over allegations that they colluded to fix prices. Read More
Over the past week, the FDA issued final guidance on revising ANDA labeling, draft guidances on metallic coatings and/or calcium phosphate coatings on orthopedic devices and conducting remote regulatory assessments. The agency also announced a meeting of the circulatory system devices panel of the medical devices advisory committee and posted best practices for FDA staff in postmarketing safety surveillance. Read More
The FDA is offering drugmakers the opportunity to become involved in an agency effort to find ways to evaluate quality management maturity (QMM) by using a prototype assessment protocol. Read More
While secondary T-cell cancers following CAR-T cell therapy are relatively rare adverse events, the FDA wants its new boxed warning labeling changes for the drugs to encourage more data on outcomes, agency officials said in an editorial. Read More
The Department of Justice (DOJ) and HHS issued a joint letter to state Medicaid administrators urging them to act in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and allow access to life-saving hepatitis C medications to people who have both hepatitis C and substance use disorder. Read More
The Biden administration and Danco Laboratories, manufacturer of the abortion pill mifepristone, have filed briefs petitioning the Supreme Court to keep wider patient access because restricting the drug would have damaging health repercussions for women. Read More
An Illinois law that targets “price gouging” for generic drugs is the target of a lawsuit filed by the trade group representing America’s generics and biosimilar manufacturers who claim the law is a constitutional overreach that would have Illinois regulating transactions outside that state. Read More
The Canadian government is not happy with the FDA’s decision to allow the state of Florida to import certain Canadian prescription drugs in bulk, and neither is the powerful U.S. pharmaceutical industry trade group PhRMA. Read More
Two significant changes in the FDA’s final guidance on updating ANDA labeling are details on how to obtain information on changes to reference listed drug (RLD) labeling and how to submit revised ANDA labeling. Read More
Novo Nordisk, seeking to remain in the front of the weight loss drug race, has inked a deal with EraCal Therapeutics, a biotech startup, whose small molecule program offers a potential novel mechanism of action for controlling appetite and obesity. Read More
In the face of inveterate manufacturer foot-dragging and a dearth of certified review bodies, the European Commission (EC) is once again proposing to extend the deadline for companies to comply with the In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices Regulation (IVDR). Read More
Less than two months after its announced investigation of secondary T-cell cancers in patients who received chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell immunotherapy cancer treatments, the FDA is mandating label updates to include a boxed warning, the agency’s most serious drug safety alert. Read More