Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Arch, Kura, Lannett, Regulus.
Administering multiple booster doses against COVID-19 is not sustainable in the longer term, international drug regulators said during a meeting of the International Coalition of Medicines Regulatory Authorities, held Jan. 12. Regulators argued that a long-term strategy should involve vaccines capable of tackling several variants at once, not just omicron, and that tweaking existing vaccines and comparing them with first-generation vaccines using clinical studies is the way forward, according to a report from the meeting.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: AB Science, Amgen, AN2, Aptorum, Argenx, Beigene, Betterlife, Clairvoyant, Compass, Idorsia, Jeil, Marker, Novavax, Nuvation, Omeros, Opko, Palleon, Pfizer, Rockwell, Senhwa, Turning Point.
The good news first. A new U.S. Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report shows that, on average, Americans who can get the treatment they need with generics may be paying less for their prescription drugs than they were a decade ago. The bad news? Those who have no choice other than a brand drug may be paying a whole lot more.
PERTH, Australia – In preparation for easing COVID-19 restrictions and opening its international borders, Australia has added a new vaccine and two new oral antiviral therapies to its arsenal to fight the omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that is sweeping the globe. Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration granted provisional approval on Jan. 20 to Biocelect Pty Ltd. (on behalf of Novavax Inc.) for its COVID-19 vaccine, Nuvaxovid, as well as two oral antiviral treatments.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Algernon, Bioinvent, Chemocentryx, Cytomx, Galapagos, Gamida, Kinnate, Neurophth, Numinus, Regeneron, Revance, Yumanity.
At least one biopharma company is under the magnifying glass in a U.S. Senate Finance Committee investigation into large multinational corporations that shift profits overseas to avoid U.S. taxes.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) needs to stop ignoring the 2018 Right to Try Act and stop blocking terminally ill patients’ access to psilocybin, an investigational drug that may provide relief from debilitating anxiety and depression, a bipartisan group of House members said.
With an eye on promoting innovation in complex innovative trial designs, the U.S. FDA published a series of case study examples Jan. 18 from its CID Pilot Meeting Program.
With U.S. merger filings more than doubling between 2020 and 2021, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DoJ) Antitrust Division are seeking public input as they begin to modernize federal merger guidelines to better detect and prevent what they consider illegal, anticompetitive deals.