As part of its pharmacovigilance program for Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm (aducanumab), Biogen Inc. is evaluating a handful of reports published in the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System Public Dashboard, including the Aug. 18 death of a 75-year-old woman with Alzheimer’s and other co-morbidities.
Arthrex Inc., of Naples, Fla., is well known for lobbing a legal hand grenade into the inter partes review (IPR) process for patent disputes, but the company is now drawing ink for a different legal reason. According to the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ), Arthrex has agreed to pay $16 million to settle allegations that it engaged in kickbacks to a surgeon, payments ostensibly made to pay for assistance with device design, but which the DoJ claims were intended to induce the surgeon’s use and endorsement of Arthrex products.
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has withdrawn the proposal to provide automatic Medicare coverage of FDA breakthrough devices, but the proposal may not be as dead as it once seemed.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Astrazeneca, Diamedica, Eton, Liquidia, Ocugen, Prelude, Seelos, Soligenix.
A U.S. district court jury in Boston found Nov. 5 that Gregory Lemelson and Massachusetts-based Lemelson Capital Management LLC made fraudulent misrepresentations about Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc. to drive down the San Diego company’s stock price.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Bharat, Novavax, Nrx, Ocugen, Opiant, Tris.
A closely watched oral antiviral for the treatment of mild to moderate COVID-19 will soon be available in Britain after a conditional authorization by the U.K. Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. Developed by Ridgeback Biotherapeutics Inc. and Merck & Co. Inc., the drug will be marketed as Lagevrio (molnupiravir) and made available via a national study this winter, the government said.
Compelling testimony from parents who saw life-altering changes in their children who participated in Levo Therapeutics Inc.’s intranasal carbetocin clinical trial wasn’t enough to counter what the FDA’s Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee saw as a lack of “substantial evidence” to support the drug’s effectiveness in treating hyperphagia associated with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS).
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