U.S. NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya will be a lot busier in the days and weeks ahead. As if helming the NIH isn’t enough, Bhattacharya has been tapped to also serve as acting director of the CDC, an administration official confirmed to BioWorld.
With CE-marked products accounting for about 90% of medical devices currently used in Great Britain, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is considering proposals for a path forward that would help the U.K. achieve its goal of becoming a leading country for med-tech access by 2030.
Though it’s largely viewed by analysts as a simple delay rather than a setback, Disc Medicine Inc.’s unexpected complete response letter (CRL) for bitopertin in the rare genetic disorder erythropoietic protoporphyria (EPP) raises more questions regarding consistency and stability at the U.S. FDA.
CSPC Pharmaceutical Group Ltd. has obtained IND approval from the FDA for SYH-2082 injection, a GLP-1/GIP receptor dual-biased agonist polypeptide long-acting injection for weight management for individuals with obesity or overweight and at least one weight-related comorbidity.
Changchun Genescience Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. has received clearance from China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) to start clinical trials with Gensci-136 for injection, a dual APRIL/BAFF antagonist in development for the treatment of immunoglobulin A nephropathy.
Following through on efforts initiated in November 2025, the U.S. FDA approved drug labeling changes for six menopausal hormone replacement therapies (HRTs) that removes the risk statements related to cardiovascular disease, breast cancer and probable dementia from the boxed warnings.
More than a decade after it was first proposed, the U.S. Precision Medicine Initiative that grew into the NIH’s All of Us dataset has reached its target of collecting genetic and health-related data from 1 million Americans representative of the diversity across the country.
After two decades of work with Translarna (ataluren) for nonsense mutation Duchenne muscular dystrophy, PTC Therapeutics Inc. withdrew its bid for approval of the compound upon hearing from the U.S. FDA. Regulators told Warren, N.J.-based PTC that the data package for Translarna is “unlikely to meet the agency's threshold of substantial evidence of effectiveness.”
Undeterred by all the unsuccessful biopharma suits challenging the U.S. Medicare price negotiations, Abbvie Inc. filed its own complaint Feb. 11 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, seeking to undo CMS’ selection of Botox in the third round of the negotiations.
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