Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Kronos, Nervgen, Nicox, Novadip, Ocumension, Pfizer, RDIF, Regeneron, Sanofi.
As the World Trade Organization (WTO) debate intensified this week over a demand to waive patent protections for COVID-19 vaccines and therapies, the group’s new director-general, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, urged members to “walk and chew gum” at the same time by working with “companies to open up and license more viable manufacturing sites now in emerging markets and developing countries. We must get them to work with us on know-how and technology transfer now.”
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Blueprint, Dialectic, Exicure, Exithera, Idorsia, Junshi, Kempharm, Oblato, On Target, RDIF, Saniona, Sorrento, Wellmarker, Xentria.
A new once-daily attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) drug developed by prodrug specialist Kempharm Inc. has won FDA approval under the brand name Azstarys. The medicine combines serdexmethylphenidate, Kempharm's prodrug of the CNS stimulant dexmethylphenidate, with immediate-release d-MPH, the core medicine in the now off-patent product Focalin, a refined formulation of Ritalin.
The separate “pass-through” payment Medicare provides for new, high-cost Part B drugs that are part of certain hospital procedures in the U.S. may be an incentive for hospitals to use those drugs rather than less expensive alternatives, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Adverum, Argenx, Astrazeneca, Beigene, Biocryst, Biogen, Eisai, Eyenovia, Fibrogen, Merck, Molecular Targeting Technologies, Oyster Point, RDIF, Sorrento, Strongbridge.
Molybdenum cofactor deficiency (MoCD) type A, an ultra-rare metabolic disorder causing intractable seizures, brain injury and death, now has a world-first treatment in Nulibry (fosdenopterin), a new I.V. therapy developed by Bridgebio Pharma Inc. subsidiary Origin Biosciences Inc. The agency's priority review, supported by its orphan, breakthrough and rare pediatric disease programs, also yielded a priority review voucher (PRV) for Origin.
In divvying up U.S. spending on orphan vs. nonorphan indications for drugs approved for both, a new study could fuel future debates and inform policy on orphan drug incentives. The study, led by a team of University of Michigan and Boston University researchers, found that 21% of the total dollars spent in 2018 in the U.S. on the 15 top-selling partial orphan drugs went to the treatment of rare diseases, while more than 70% went to the treatment of common diseases.
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