Icecure Medical Ltd. reported that the U.S. FDA has granted marketing authorization to Icecure's de novo application for the Prosense cryoablation system for the local treatment of breast cancer in patients 70 years of age or older with biologically low-risk tumors. The authorized indication includes patients that are not suitable for surgery for breast cancer treatment.
The U.S. FDA device center’s guidance agenda for fiscal 2026 is the classic case of something old and something new, but what was borrowed from FY 2025 may make some blue.
With U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration vocally opposed to abortion, the U.S. FDA has approved a new generic version of the pill that makes the procedure possible medically: mifepristone, once better known as RU-486.
The U.S. FDA has approved the priority sNDA for a new first-line maintenance therapy in extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer from Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc. Zepzelca (lurbinectedin) can now be combined with Tecentriq (atezolizumab, Roche AG) or atezolizumab and hyaluronidase-tqjs (Tecentriq Hybreza, Roche) as a maintenance therapy for adults who haven’t progressed after first-line induction therapy with atezolizumab, carboplatin and etoposide.
Taho Pharmaceuticals Ltd. announced an NDA submission to the U.S. FDA for TAH-3311, developed as the world’s first oral dissolving film formulation of apixaban, marking a regulatory milestone for the Taipei-based biotech.
Caught between the start of fiscal 2026 and a congressional funding standoff that shut down much of the U.S. federal government Oct. 1, the FDA will not be able to collect 2026 user fees until Congress agrees on a continuing resolution or a 2026 appropriations bill.
A U.S. FDA complete response letter (CRL) citing manufacturing concerns has stepped into the way of a rare genetic disorder treatment. Fortress Biotech Inc. and its subsidiary, Cyprium Therapeutics Inc., said the letter in response to the NDA for CUTX-101, an injectable formulation of copper histidinate, noted cGMP deficiencies at the facility where the Menkes disease treatment is manufactured.
Patients with chronic spontaneous urticaria who remain symptomatic despite H1 antihistamine treatment now have a new oral treatment option, with the U.S. FDA’s approval of Novartis AG’s Rhapsido (remibrutinib), a Bruton’s tyrosine kinase inhibitor administered by pill twice daily.
The FDA has granted orphan drug designation to FRF-001, the FOXG1 Research Foundation’s lead gene therapy candidate for the treatment of FOXG1 syndrome. This follows the FDA’s earlier award of rare pediatric disease designation to the investigational therapy.
The U.S. FDA’s early alert program has communicated a number of potential device malfunction episodes since its inception in late 2024, but the agency announced that the program is now moving out of the pilot phase to include all device types as of Sept. 29.