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The regulator on Monday slapped Abeona Therapeutics with a Complete Response Letter for its investigational cell therapy pz-cel due to chemistry, manufacturing and controls issues.
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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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A unanimous FDA committee vote supported the favorable risk-benefit profile of Innoviva’s sulbactam-durlobactam for hospital-acquired A. baumannii infections.
Thursday, the FDA greenlit Ostuka and Lundbeck’s Rexulti as the first treatment in the U.S. for agitation associated with dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease.
The Supreme Court extended the stay deadline to Friday at midnight to keep mifepristone on the market in the interim without conditions.
In an open letter published Monday, more than 480 biopharma industry leaders expressed their support for the FDA after a Texas federal judge ruled to hold the approval of the abortion pill mifepristone.
AbbVie and Johnson & Johnson will withdraw the accelerated approvals for Imbruvica in mantle cell lymphoma and marginal zone lymphoma, the companies announced Thursday.
The FDA is set to decide on a Humira biosimilar and hold an Adcomm meeting for an Alzheimer’s agitation treatment. Also on its calendar for April are decision dates for two vaccine hopefuls.
AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi and Lynparza met primary endpoint markers in the Phase III DUO-O trial in advanced high-grade epithelial ovarian cancer, according to data released Wednesday.
The FDA has granted emergency use authorization to InflaRx’s vilobelimab, now to be marketed as Gohibic, for hospitalized adult patients with COVID-19, the German biotech announced Tuesday.
The Inflation Reduction Act contains provisions designed to influence drug prices. These policies might affect drug development and the prioritization of new drugs.
The FDA has approved the combination regimen of Merck’s Keytruda and Seagen and Astellas’ Padcev for the first-line treatment of locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma.