Without using the words “universal” or “nationwide,” a U.S. district judge granted a preliminary injunction July 1 to stop the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) reorganization plan, along with any workforce reduction that’s part of the plan.
While the first meeting of the U.S. CDC’s newly minted Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP) is now recent history, questions about the makeup of the committee and its future direction remain unanswered.
Hong Kong’s Department of Health (DH) announced plans to establish a new medical products regulatory agency called the Hong Kong Centre for Medical Products Regulation (CMPR) by the end of 2026.
Could the U.S. FDA’s de novo marketing authorization for Tissium SA’s Coaptium Connect, an atraumatic sutureless solution for peripheral nerve repair, signal a transformative shift away from sutures in nerve surgery? Only time will tell.
The U.S. FDA finalized the latest edition of its premarket cybersecurity guidance, but the agency is of the view that any device with software is subject to the terms of the guidance even though the statute would seem to exempt device software that lacks connectivity.
The U.K. Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency reported June 24 it joined a global regulatory network for AI that is part of the Health AI regulatory initiative – a program that will invite another nine regulatory agencies to take part in the initiative in the months ahead.
Innovent Biologics Inc. announced June 27 that it gained National Medical Products Administration’s (NMPA) approval of mazdutide as a new weight loss therapy for obese or overweight patients in China. Mazdutide is a dual glucagon/glucagon-like peptide-1 (GCG/GLP-1) receptor agonist originally discovered by Eli Lilly and Co., of Indianapolis.
Weighing in on the marketing exclusivity provided by the Orphan Drug Act, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said the FDA didn’t act beyond its statutory authority when it approved Avadel CNS Pharmaceuticals plc’s narcolepsy drug, Lumryz, for marketing during the exclusivity period granted to Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc’s Xywav, even though both drugs contained the same active ingredient, sodium oxybate, and were approved for the same disease or condition.
The increased use of GLP-1 receptor agonists has led on to an increase in reports of acute pancreatitis in people taking these weight loss drugs in the U.K. That has prompted the launch of a pharmacogenomics project to investigate if there are any genetic links underlying the occurrence of this adverse event.
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