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Merck’s investigational hepatitis C grazoprevir/elbasvir combination pill has picked up two new breakthrough designations, just three months after the FDA threatened to rescind one it had already granted to the drugs. Read More
The European Commission has approved Roche's Avastin plus chemotherapy for women with persistent, recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer, the company said Wednesday. Read More
The Federal Circuit affirmed most of a 2013 U.S. district court ruling that ordered Apotex to pay AstraZeneca slightly more than $76 million for infringing on patents for its heartburn drug Prilosec. Read More
The European Medicines Agency has rejected calls from industry to use biosimilar reference products from outside the EU unless they are justified using pharmacokinetic tests. Read More
The FDA slapped warning letters on two more drug outsourcing facilities for sloppy sterile processing, bringing to seven the number of compounders cited for sterile manufacturing deviations in the past six months. Read More
The FDA is edging toward requiring pharmaceutical excipient makers to adopt quality systems and has collaborated with standards development groups in developing an excipients GMP standard. Read More
The FDA has handed Hospira its seventh warning letter in seven years and the second in the past six months, this time for poor sterile processing, inadequate batch failure investigations and data integrity weaknesses at its Liscate, Italy, manufacturing plant. Read More