Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Astrazeneca, Can-Fite, Ferring, Highfield, Ironwood, Starton, Stealth.
As new and ongoing drug shortages in the U.S. limit patients’ access to essential medicines and life-saving cancer treatments, the blame largely has fallen on increased demand, quality problems, the supply chain and lack of transparency in that chain.
The June 14 hearing of the House Appropriations Committee was focused largely on spending levels for the Department of Agriculture, but there was also some concern over the proposed spending levels for the FDA. One of the more conspicuous features of the legislative report is the recommendation that the FDA finalize guidance or rulemaking for risk-based regulation of lab-developed tests (LDTs), a clear departure from the stance taken by Congress for a number of years.
Using his new platform as chair of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is again pushing the Biden administration to reinstate, and strengthen, a “reasonable pricing clause” in all future research agreements involving government agencies, especially those funding drug R&D.
The need to reauthorize the U.S. Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act (PAHPA) prompted a June 13 hearing in the House of Representatives, but a major fissure appeared between the Republican and Democratic Parties regarding FDA’s authorities for managing drug shortages.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Astrazeneca, Bloomsbury, Lantern, Merck & Co., Neobiosis, Pharmala, Phathom.
It didn’t take long for the filing of a second constitutional challenge to the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act’s price negotiations for prescription drugs. In the wake of a similar suit filed three days earlier by Merck & Co. Inc., the Chamber of Commerce filed a complaint June 9 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Abeona, Anthos, Astellas, Astrazeneca, Crispr, Praxis, Sanofi, Vertex, Vor.
Eisai Co. Ltd. and Biogen Inc.’s Leqembi (lecanemab) gained the support of the U.S. FDA’s Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee (adcom) in a 6-0 vote on June 9, as panel members unanimously agreed that the results of the phase III Clarity trial verified the clinical benefit in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. The FDA does not have to follow the adcom’s recommendation, but it often does. The PDUFA date for the supplemental NDA is July 6.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Biogen, Eisai, Innate, Merck & Co., Novaliq, Pipeline, Rocket.
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