The FDA’s latest version of the intended use rule is a complex, 61-page document that cleaned up a few things from the previous version and added a phrase or two to the regulatory lexicon. Randy Prebula, a partner in the D.C. office of Hogan Lovells U.S. LLP, told BioWorld that while the FDA left itself some wiggle room by avoiding a prescriptive use of language in the rule, the final rule is unlikely to be the final word on the intended use question.
Fibrogen Inc. was braced for receiving a complete response letter (CRL) and it got one. The FDA suggested it would not approve roxadustat’s NDA for treating anemia of chronic kidney disease until more clinical work is conducted. In July, the FDA’s Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee said basically the same thing as it voted 13-1 against approval for the nondialysis population and 12-2 against approval for patients on dialysis unless more trial data are submitted.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Akouos, Belief, Dermavant, Fibrogen, GW, Innocare, Lantern, Merck, Phasebio, Reata, Roivant, SFJ.
Rather than appeal an April decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the FDA is changing how it regulates imaging agents. That means the agency will transition at least some approved imaging agents from drug status to device status and, going forward, it will regulate products that meet both the device and drug definition as devices – unless Congress specifies otherwise.
Rick Bright, who filed a whistleblower complaint last year against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) after he was removed from his position as director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), reached an undisclosed settlement with HHS, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel reported Aug. 9.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Acer, Advaccine, Ascletis, Astrazeneca, Autolus, Bluebird, Biohaven, Calliditas, Dare, Eton, Inovio, Moderna, Relief, Sanofi, Yisheng.
Shares of Axsome Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ:AXSM) hit a 52-week low on Aug. 9, falling 46.5% to close at $24.37, after the FDA said deficiencies in an NDA in major depressive disorder for its drug, AXS-05 (dextromethorphan + bupropion), would "preclude labeling discussions" for now.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Akeso, Aprea, Immvira, Polpharma, Spectrum.
A three-month delay proved to be of no concern for Nexviazyme (avalglucosidase alfa-ngpt, neoGAA), Sanofi SA’s long-term enzyme replacement therapy (ERT), which gained FDA approval for intravenous infusion to treat patients 1 and older with late-onset Pompe disease.
Novavax Inc. now says it plans to submit an emergency use authorization (EUA) to the FDA for its highly efficacious COVID-19 vaccine, NVX-CoV2373, sometime in the fourth quarter, backing off previous plans of a second-quarter and then a third-quarter filing.
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