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Analysts called the approval a much-needed win for Novo Nordisk, but warned that the company could struggle to grow sales once rival drugs come to market.
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Representatives of companies including AbbVie, Eli Lilly, Johnson & Johnson and Merck have voiced concerns about the FDA’s approach to pre-approval inspections.
With notable therapies from Biogen, Sarepta and MacroGenics failing to show efficacy in pivotal or confirmatory trials, experts question the use of biomarker evidence for approval while one former regulator insists that a “failed trial is not a failed drug.”
Coming up in the back half of December, the FDA will issue a verdict on Vanda Pharmaceuticals’ gastroparesis drug tradipitant, which it rejected last September, triggering a very public dispute with the company.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has a very busy calendar for the end of November and beginning of December. Here’s a look.
The FDA approved Takeda’s Livtencity (maribavir) for adults and children 12 years or older with post-transplant cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection.
Shares of Aadi Bioscience were up more than 25% in premarket trading after announcing the FDA greenlit its treatment for a rare and aggressive form of cancer that disproportionately affects women.
The FDA has granted Cambridge-based bluebird Bio a Priority Review of its Biologics License Application for betibeglogene autotemcel (beti-cel).
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has a few PDUFA dates for the Thanksgiving Holiday week. Here’s a look.
BioMarin Pharmaceutical scored a first on Friday and provided an option for patients with a rare disease for which there is little recourse.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved COVID-19 vaccine booster shots for all Americans ages 18 and over Friday morning.