The latest global regulatory news, changes and updates affecting medical devices and technologies, including: BD offers little detail in reaction to advisory hearing; FDA invites stakeholders to user fee negotiations; MHRA wary of paclitaxel.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Additive Orthopaedics, FX Shoulder, Medtronic.
Athenex Inc.’s launch of Klisyri (tirbanibulin) likely whetted investor appetite for another prospect coming down the pike: Oraxol, an oral form of paclitaxel for which the Buffalo, N.Y.-based firm has been assigned a PDUFA date of Feb. 28.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Astellas, Avacta, CNS, Seagen, WPD.
A U.S. FDA advisory committee voted 14 nays to three ayes that the benefits of the Lutonix 014 drug-coated balloon (DCB) do not outweigh the risks in a panel proceeding peppered by problems with missing data and a lack of operator blinding. The panel widely saw the use of paclitaxel-eluting technologies in other areas of the vasculature as a reassurance that this device might perform as promised, but the outcome nonetheless leaves the sponsor with a new round of negotiations with the FDA as to how to move forward.
The latest global regulatory news, changes and updates affecting medical devices and technologies, including: HHS commits more funds for testing, materials to fight pandemic; Medtronic announces recall of Valiant Navion; Florida man pleads guilty in DME fraud.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Delta International Services & Logistics, Everlywell, Horiba Medical, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Vax-Immune Diagnostics.
In a Feb. 17 update to its guidance on managing clinical trials during the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.K.’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said all sponsors of ongoing clinical trials for indications other than treatment or prevention of COVID-19 are required to evaluate the impact a COVID-19 vaccine may have on the trial.
Investing in biopharma has never been for the faint of heart. So headline figures unveiled from a clinical development success report during the BIO CEO & Investor Conference Feb. 17, putting the average likelihood of a drug entering phase I development ultimately achieving approval at 7.9% and the average drug development timeline at 10.5 years, appear largely unsurprising. But the addition of machine learning capabilities to the mix helped identify those factors that have the greatest impact on predictive outcome.
PERTH, Australia – With the first COVID-19 vaccine ready to be launched in Australia, the Therapeutic Goods Administration has released guidance on its pharmacovigilance plan to track real-world safety data and adverse events following immunization.