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J&J and BMS’ challenges to Medicare drug price negotiations shut down in federal court less than a week after BMS announced it was laying off more than 2,000 employees.
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New FDA expert panels, such as recent meetings on SSRI use during pregnancy and on hormone replacement therapy during menopause, are drawing criticism for being one-sided. One leader says such panels are designed to reach a specific conclusion.
Amid an unprecedented turnover in leadership at the FDA and mass layoffs of staff, communication has crumbled and uncertainty runs rampant, leaving small and medium biopharma companies without a clear path forward for their therapies.
Aside from the rare disease market, Novo Nordisk also scored a key regulatory win last month for its blockbuster GLP-1 drug Wegovy, which can now be used to treat patients with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis.
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Otsuka and Lundbeck won approval Friday for Abilify Asimtufii, a long-acting injectable that provides two months of symptom relief in patients with schizophrenia or bipolar I disorder.
Prevnar 20 is indicated for the prevention of invasive pneumococcal disease and otitis media in children.
Vowst, the first-ever oral fecal microbiome-based therapeutic, is indicated for preventing C. diff recurrence in adults following antibacterial treatment.
Govorestat failed its primary composite measure but showed signals of efficacy, leading the company to push forward with an NDA.
To give the FDA more time to evaluate updates to quizartinib’s proposed REMS program, the regulator is pushing the target action date to July 24.
The FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research is aiming to recreate the success achieved with the rapid development of COVID-19 vaccines under a program of the same name.
This week, the FDA will release its verdict on Biogen and Ionis’ ALS candidate tofersen and three other investigational medicines for psychiatric disorders, hormonal insufficiency and gut infection.
Polivy is approved for front-line DLBCL as part of a combination regimen including Rituxan, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin and prednisone.
Qulipta’s label expansion makes it the first oral CGRP receptor antagonist approved for episodic and chronic migraine.
Omisirge is approved for patients who receive cord blood transplantation following myeloablative therapy.