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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.
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This approval marks the first time in a decade Sanofi has had a wholly-owned cancer drug approved.
Five years after Martin Shkreli rose to infamy for acquiring the toxoplasmosis treatment Daraprim from Impax Laboratories for $55 million and then jacking the price by 5,000%, the U.S. FDA approved the first generic for the medication.
The green light from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration marks the first approval for U.K.-based Acacia.
Nexlizet is expected to be on the market in the U.S. in July 2020.
Seqirus snagged approval for Fluad Quadrivalent, the first-and-only quadrivalent adjuvanted influenza vaccine developed to help protect adults 65 years and older against seasonal influenza.
H. Lundbeck A/S is making a statement with its newly approved treatment for migraine, the first intravenous medication approved for the preventative treatment of migraine.
The company is planning for its drug for cholesterol lowering medications to hit the streets by the end of March. It will provide a new option to all the patients.
The approval marks the first once-per-day 24-hour, intravenous COX-2 preferential NSAID, the company said.
Here’s a look at the two drugs that had dates this week but were approved early and are now on the market.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has a busy week planned for drug review. Here’s a look at this week’s schedule.