We use cookies to provide you with a better experience. By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies in accordance with our Cookie Policy.
A tornado with winds of 150 mph slammed into Pfizer’s enormous drug manufacturing plant in Nash County, N.C., on July 19, knocking out the facility that makes 25 percent of the company’s injectable medications. Read More
Five drugs that are likely to make the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) price negotiation list accounted for 13 percent ($29 billion) of 2021 Medicare Part D spending, but were less than one percent of all covered drugs according to a Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) analysis of the latest available sales data from CMS. Read More
This monthly feature consists of excerpts from articles printed in GMP Newsletter LOGFILE, reprinted by permission of the publisher, GMP-Verlag Peither AG. Read More
Republican members of the House Energy and Commerce (E&C) Committee are pressing FDA Commissioner Robert Califf on the effectiveness of the agency’s foreign drug inspection program given that numerous Indian and Chinese firms have repeatedly flouted FDA regulations. Read More
Two more drugmakers — Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen Pharmaceuticals and Astellas Pharma — filed lawsuits this week against CMS seeking relief from the Drug Price Negotiation Program established by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), claiming the program is unconstitutional and bringing the number of lawsuits filed to six. Read More
Medtronic’s recall of more than 348,000 implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) and cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators (CRT-D) has been deemed class I by the FDA, the most serious type of recall as use of the device may cause injury or death. Read More
Upcoming events in the coming weeks include five FDA advisory committee meetings as well as the GMP Quality Management vSummit, and webinars from FDAnews, a WCG company on reliability assessment and medical device risk management tools. Read More
The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FTC have issued draft guidelines the government will use to determine whether a merger may violate anti-trust laws by risking lessened competition now and in the future. Read More
Teva Pharmaceuticals is facing Department of Justice (DOJ) allegations — and potential penalties of $12 billion — that the Israeli drugmaker defrauded Medicare by paying kickbacks to charitable foundations that subsidized patients’ out-of-pocket payments for its multiple sclerosis blockbuster Copaxone (glatiramer). Read More
CMS has proposed removing the national coverage determination for the positron emission tomography (PET) beta amyloid imaging needed to diagnose the onset of Alzheimer’s disease and prescribe the newly approved antiamyloid antibody drug Lequembi (lecanemab). Read More
Illumina and Pfizer are each heading up collaborations starring pharmaceutical heavy hitters who will work together to accelerate drug development, although in different ways. Read More
Regenerative medicine development faces challenges in standardization, regulation and manufacturing the Government Accountability Office (GAO) determined in a recently released report. Read More