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As the 118th Congress continues, FDAnews will track important pending legislation to keep you updated on regulations that could impact your business. Read More
Two years after its repeal of a rule that would have expedited Medicare coverage for FDA-cleared Breakthrough Devices, CMA Thursday issued a request for comment on a process to provide “transitional coverage for emerging technologies” (TCET). Read More
The U.S. government filed an appeal of a jury’s recent decision in the CDC patent infringement case involving Gilead’s HIV-prevention regimen, seeking $1 billion in compensation against Gilead’s $10 billion in revenue from the drugs. Read More
The Orphan Drug Act should give Jazz Pharmaceuticals the full seven years of exclusivity for its blockbuster narcolepsy drug, Xywav, says Jazz in its suit against the FDA, claiming the agency’s approval of a competitor drug, Lumryz, is unlawful. Read More
Over the past week, the FDA issued final guidance on oncology drug products used with certain in vitro diagnostic tests and draft guidance on formal dispute resolution and administrative hearings procedures. Read More
Addressing growing interest in the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs, the FDA has published a draft guidance noting multiple unique considerations for psychedelic drug development programs and challenges in designing trials. Read More
The FTC has filed an amicus brief urging a U.S. appeals court to side with the plaintiffs in a case that alleges Forest Laboratories paid several generics producers millions of dollars to drop a patent challenge for Forest’s hypertension drug Bystolic (nebivolol). Read More
PhRMA joined the constitutional showdown over the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) by filing a complaint on Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. Read More
Vitang Technology, a Tustin, Calif.-based manufacturer of 3D printed dental alignment devices, failed to seek the FDA’s clearance when it changed the software used with its UniSmile Clear Aligner, the agency said in a June 12 warning letter to the company. Read More
This month, our review of recent clinical trial results features Rinvoq’s sustained remission in almost half of Crohn’s disease patients, Novo Nordisk’s semaglutide showing significant patient weight loss, and improved insulin and fasting glucose levels in a phase 2B study of Akero Therapeutics’ human fusion protein efruxifermin.Read More
CDER formal dispute resolution (FDR) procedures on how to appeal a final order for OTC monograph drugs are outlined in a draft guidance the FDA released on Thursday. Read More
Heavy reliance on foreign manufacturing for essential medicines is at the root of FDA concerns over supply chain and drug shortages, according to a report from the FDA Office of Pharmaceutical Quality (OPQ) that shows 82 percent of API and 57 percent of finished dosage form manufacturing sites are outside the U.S. Read More