LONDON – After a year in the mill, the U.K. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has put proposals for how it intends to evaluate drugs, devices and diagnostics in the future out for consultation.
The latest global regulatory news, changes and updates affecting medical devices and technologies, including: NICE reviews Dexcom’s G6; Ortho claims EUA for antigen test with 100% sensitivity.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Astrazeneca, Astellas, Basilea, Gosun, Bristol Myers Squibb, Lipocine, Sarepta, Sedor, Senhwa.
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the U.S. FDA on the postmarket side as well as on the premarket side, but the focus of pandemic-driven warning letters has shifted over time. Amanda Johnston, senior attorney at Gardner Law of Stillwater, Minn., said on a Nov. 5 webinar the FDA’s emphasis lately has been closer to the agency’s traditional enforcement considerations after an initial wave of warnings dealing with flatly fraudulent products.
Taiwan’s FDA rolled out two new supplementary regulations on periodic safety updates and adverse event notifications for medical devices in October. They are part of its Medical Device Management Law that was reported on Jan. 15. As Taiwan is stepping up innovation of and regulation for medical devices, the nation for the first time decided to separate the regulation of medical devices from pharmaceutical products.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit narrowed the landscape for filing Hatch-Waxman infringement suits against U.S.-based companies, as it answered yet another question raised by the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in TC Heartland v. Kraft Foods, which dramatically changed venue parameters in 2017 for all patent infringement cases.
Shares of Bluebird Bio Inc. (NASDAQ:BLUE) sank 16.6%, or $9.72, to close at $48.83 as Wall Street reacted to news that the U.S. regulatory filing for Lentiglobin in sickle cell disease (SCD) will be delayed. Previously expected in the second half of next year, the filing won’t happen until late 2022.
The latest global regulatory news, changes and updates affecting biopharma, including: Price not so NICE for routine use of Opdivo in melanoma; MHRA updates EAMS guidance; HHS plans retrospective regulatory review; USPTO sees spike in AI-related patent applications.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Amnio Technology, Asieris, Astrazeneca, Bluebird, Genmab, Janssen, Vertex.
The U.S. FDA’s stated policy is that it will not review emergency use authorizations (EUAs) for lab-developed tests (LDTs) for the COVID-19 pandemic, but that doesn’t mean labs are completely shut out. The FDA’s Toby Lowe said that a lab that wants to pair an assay that already has an EUA with a new software installation on lab instrumentation can work with the assay developer to update that EUA.
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