Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Amgen, Aravax, Bharat Biotech, Biogen, Eisai, Merck, Nymox, Ocugen.
Shanghai Junshi Biosciences Co. Ltd. and Mabwell Bioscience Co. Ltd. have won marketing approval for the adalimumab biosimilar Junmaikang from China’s NMPA for the treatment of patients with rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, and psoriasis. It’s Mabwell Bio’s first commercial product.
The U.S. FDA does not have legal authority to impose recalls on most regulated products, making the March 3 final guidance for voluntary recalls a key policy declaration for industry. The guidance recommends that recalling firms make extensive use of electronic communication to announce a recall, but the referenced FDA guidance for electronic communications was finalized in 2006 and makes no reference to social media as an electronic conduit for recall information.
A Purdue Pharma LP bankruptcy settlement is back on track now that the Sackler family has agreed to pay at least $5.5 billion, and up to $6 billion, for the role they played in the nationwide opioid epidemic.
There’s nothing like beginning-of-the-year price increases to turn up the heat on the prescription drug pricing debate in the U.S. This year is no exception. Citing a mean price increase of 5.1% on brand drugs in the first 25 days of 2022, 13 Democratic lawmakers, led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), wrote this week to Steven Ubl, president and CEO of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, demanding an explanation for those hikes.
Amgen Inc.’s pioneering lung cancer drug, Lumykras (sotorasib), is set to become available to NHS patients in England, after cost-effectiveness body NICE recommended financing from the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF) in final draft guidance.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Beigene, Carsgen, Cidara, I-Mab, Inhibrx, Priothera, Sorrento, TG, Tonix.
LONDON – The European Commission (EC) has put forward proposals for a Data Act that is intended to both give users greater rights over their own data and allow greater third-party access. The Act sets out who can use and access data generated in the EU across all sectors of the economy. It is pitched by the EC as opening the doors to an under-used resource that will in turn promote research and innovation and create new markets in information services.
New drug and device regulations going into effect in Canada are serving as a reminder of the extended life of the COVID-19 pandemic. After two years of interim orders regulating the importation and sale of drugs and devices for COVID-19 clinical trials and the conduct of those trials, Canada is issuing long-term regulations that will incorporate most of the provisions of the temporary orders.
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