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The FDA is often publishing draft guidelines and asking for expert feedback on that guidance. It’s been a busy week in this regard, with several areas of healthcare and drug development and manufacturing being covered by the agency. Here’s a look.
A Small Group of Pharma Companies Is Making the Bulk of Medicines Necessary for Developing Countries
There are 7 billion people in the world. Of those, 5 billion have access to life-saving medications, while 2 billion do not. That is a gap that pharmaceutical companies can help close through increased R&D programs, logistical initiatives and the lowering of prices, the Access to Medicine Foundation announced Tuesday.
Two weeks after reporting a 45 percent growth in revenue for the third quarter, compared to last year, Swedish Orphan Biovitrum AB (Sobi) has snapped up the U.S. rights to AstraZeneca’s respiratory drug, Synagis, a drug used to treat RSV in infants, for $1.5 billion.
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) ran successful animal studies of a gene therapy that appeared to cure a disease in mice similar to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), sometimes also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease.
Nearly two weeks after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Sanofi and Regeneron’s Dupixent as an add-on maintenance therapy for moderate to severe asthma, the France-based company reported a surge in sales for the medication in its most recent quarterly report.
To suggest that the pharma industry is a reluctant partner in President Donald Trump’s attempts to decrease drug prices is to overstate the fact. But now the industry appears to be pushing back, at least a little bit.
However, because the trial did show some efficacy and met other secondary endpoints, the companies are continuing to analyze the data and decide on their next moves.
The FDA approved Sanofi and Regeneron’s Dupixent (dupilumab) as an add-on maintenance therapy for patients with moderate-to-severe asthma. The approved group is age 12 years and older with either an eosinophilic phenotype or with an oral corticosteroid-dependent asthma.
This week will have moderate activity by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Although they jumped the gun on Regeneron and Sanofi’s cancer drug, there are still plenty of other decisions being made this week. Here’s a look.
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