The possibilities of cures for cancer and other tough-to-treat diseases and the ability to further personalize medicine are creating a lot of excitement about the future of radiopharmaceuticals as both therapy and diagnostics. To reach that future, industry and researchers will have to overcome a lot of challenges, not the least of which stem from the multiple government agencies involved in regulating the source material, development, distribution and use of radioactive drugs and devices.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Acasti, Aim, Amarin, Astellas, Caribou, Gennova, Hutchmed, Pfizer, Phathom, Scisparc, Seagen, Shionogi.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Airos Medical, Happiest Baby, Sanara Medtech.
The U.S. FDA has been working for some time to develop less clunky regulatory mechanisms for digital health products, but Jeff Shuren, director of the agency’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health, has been touting a voluntary alternative pathway (VAP) as a modernized approach to premarket review.
The Advanced Medical Technology Association (Advamed) and the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) have teamed up on a friend-of-the-court brief for the U.S. Supreme Court’s upcoming hearing on twin cases that examine the question of a defendant’s state of mind when filing claims with federal health programs. Advamed and BIO argue that the existing judicial approach is critical to ensuring that companies in the life sciences are not subject to treble damages when acting reasonably in connection with products reimbursed by federal health programs, adding that an overturn of existing judicial practice would stifle innovation at the cost of patient access to life-saving medical therapies.
To help drug manufacturers comply with the technical requirements of RCD 753/2022 and other related standards regarding proof of a drug’s safety and efficacy, Brazil’s Anvisa issued three new guidelines for submitting registration requests for new or innovative synthetic and semi-synthetic drugs.
The U.S. NIH once again faces questions about its oversight of certain research. In the latest round, the U.S. Government Accountability Office called on the agency to do more to ensure that foreign facilities conducting NIH-funded animal research are compliant with U.S. standards and policy regarding animal care and use, as well as international standards.
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has scaled back the list of Medicare Part B drugs facing the new inflation rebate under the Inflation Reduction Act for the first quarter of 2023.
As Seagen Inc. preps for a merger, the U.S. FDA awarded accelerated approval to the company’s big-selling Padcev (enfortumab vedotin). The approval is for a combination therapy with Merck & Co. Inc.’s Keytruda (pembrolizumab) as a first-line treatment for adults with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer who are not eligible for cisplatin-containing chemotherapy.
France is tightening access to the reimbursed health care market for digital medical devices. The national Digital Healthcare Agency (ANS) reported that a standard interoperability and safety system for digital medical devices is coming into force.
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