CAJICA, Colombia – Brazil’s health care surveillance agency, Anvisa, granted the first two emergency approvals for COVID-19 vaccines on Sunday, Jan. 17, giving the green light to Sinovac Biotech Ltd.’s Coronavac and to Covishield, developed by Astrazeneca plc and the University of Oxford.
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Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Astrazeneca, DBV, Gracell, Pfizer, RDIF, Steba.
COVID-19 undoubtedly will be the top U.S. health care priority for the 117th Congress and the incoming Biden administration, but that doesn’t mean prescription drug prices are no longer an issue. A raft of new-year price increases, many for already costly drugs, is ensuring drug pricing remains high on the congressional agenda.
The latest global regulatory news, changes and updates affecting biopharma, including: HHS posts rule for agency enforcement action; Guidance to help with COVID-19 Mabs; Chinese pharma exec sentenced on U.S. drug charges.
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As expected, pharmacy benefit managers are challenging a final rule that would end Medicare’s antitrust safe harbor for the rebates drug companies pay to the PBMs for formulary placement.
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