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The FDA issued a rare Refusal-to-File letter to Moderna over its mRNA-based influenza vaccine application, in an unusual move that sent the biotech’s shares tumbling.
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The Senate failed to pass a massive spending bill on Thursday—which includes the rare pediatric PRV program but also funding for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s large-scale crackdown in Minnesota and other states.
Some 200 rare disease therapies are at risk of losing eligibility for a pediatric priority review voucher, a recent analysis by the Rare Disease Company Coalition shows. That could mean $4 billion in missed revenue for already cash-strapped biotechs.
Together with robust data-driven modeling, rethinking regulation and data use could push forward a notoriously challenging field.
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The U.S. FDA granted Roche’s Venclexta (venetoclax) full approval in combination with azacytidine, or decitabine, or low-dose cytarabine for newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia in adults 75 years or older.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has several PDUFA dates for the rest of October, although two of them were already approved. Here’s a look.
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Regeneron announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Inmazeb, a three-antibody cocktail to treat Ebola infections in adults and children.
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The new high-speed test uses a high-throughput method comprising heat and technology to extract RNA from samples used for COVID-19 RT-PCR molecular testing.
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Catalyst Pharmaceuticals is reeling this morning after a federal judge dismissed the company’s lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration regarding the approval of a rival drug for a rare autoimmune disease from New Jersey-based Jacobus Pharmaceutical.
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The new approval makes it the first FDA-approved therapy in over a decade to treat HES and the third indication for the therapy overall.
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Under that designation, Mereo may qualify for a voucher that can be used for a priority review of a subsequent marketing application for a different product than Setrusumab.
Please check out the biopharma industry coronavirus (COVID-19) stories that are trending for October 2, 2020.