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A government shut down as of midnight on Saturday — the end of the fiscal year — appears likely as partisan disagreements about federal discretionary spending rage on with no clear end in sight. Read More
Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) has filed a motion for summary judgment in its case against HHS objecting to the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) drug price negotiation program, claiming that the undisputed material facts entitle BI to judgment as a matter of law. Read More
Recommendations on labeling of injectable prescription drug product information submitted in an NDA or certain BLAs is the subject of an FDA guidance on dose banding. Read More
Over the past week, the FDA issued final guidance on quality system considerations and content of premarket submissions for cybersecurity in medical devices. Draft guidances were issued on updating breakpoints in labeling antimicrobial susceptibility test system devices, an electronic submission template for De Novo medical device requests, and developing drugs and biologics for graft-versus-host diseases. Read More
Around the same time AstraZeneca was signing its price negotiation agreement with CMS for its diabetes drug Farxiga, which is included in the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) first list of Medicare Part D high cost drugs, the company was also filing a motion for summary judgment for the courts to declare the IRA unconstitutional. Read More
Royal Philips has denied reports that it withheld evidence of sleep and respiratory ventilator product malfunctions for more than a decade, arguing that recent media articles mischaracterize the Amsterdam-based devicemaker’s safety history. Read More
The FDA has provided further direction on developing therapies for graft-versus-host diseases (GvHD), technical considerations for devices with physiologic closed-loop controls, electronic De Novo requests, and breakpoints in labeling for antimicrobial susceptibility test system devices, issuing four new guidances. Read More
Our coverage includes EMA’s revocation of conditional marketing authorization for Blenrep, FDA approvals for Pfizer’s Bosulif and Viatris/Ocuphire Pharma Ryzumvi, and the FY 2024 priority review voucher fee rate. Read More
Despite strong testimony and comments from patients and clinicians, the FDA advisory committee reviewing NurOwn, an investigational treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), voted against recommending the drug, citing a lack of consistent data and ill-defined biomarkers. Read More
Upcoming events in the coming weeks include five FDA advisory committee meetings as well as the GMP Quality Management vSummit, the WCG MAGI@Home Clinical Research Conference 2023, the 18th Annual Inspections vSummit and webinars from FDAnews, a WCG company, on calculating sample sizes for verification and validation activities, medical device counterfeiting and what to expect from the FDA in 2024. Read More
PhRMA, the Partnership for Safe Medicines (PSM), and the Council for Affordable Health Coverage (CAHC) have sent a 10-page letter to the FDA requesting that the agency deny Florida’s Section 804 importation program (SIP) proposal to import cheaper drugs from Canada. Read More
Drugmakers have netted a whopping $185 billion from just four mega-blockbusters by leveraging patent thickets — the filing of overlapping patents to artificially extend a drug’s intellectual property protections to block generic competition — says a new report from the Initiative for Medicines, Access and Knowledge (I-MAK). Read More