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The FDA’s refusal to review Moderna’s mRNA-based flu vaccine is part of a larger communications crisis unfolding at the agency over the past nine months that has also ensnarled Sarepta, Capricor, uniQure and many more.
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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 FDA extended the indication for Gattex to pediatric patients one year of age and older with short bowel syndrome.
NAYZILAM was approved to treat frequent seizure cluster episodes in epilepsy patients.
Pfizer’s Fragmin was approved to reduce the recurrence of VTE in patients one month of age or older.
The combination of Venclexta and Gazyva was rapidly approved by the FDA under a pilot program.
The approval marks the first time the FDA has approved a checkpoint inhibitor for the treatment of advanced renal cell cancer.
The panel opposed approval of Daiichi Sankyo’s AML drug but supported approval for its TGCT treatment.
“With today’s FDA approval, Eylea has once again set a high bar for the treatment of diabetic eye diseases,” stated George D. Yancopoulos, president and chief scientific officer at Regeneron.
The drug was approved as a second-line treatment for HCC patients who have an alpha-fetoprotein biomarker.
May has been a fairly slow month for approvals by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). There are currently only two scheduled for the rest of the month, with a third that has been withdrawn. Let’s take a look.
Neuronascent Inc. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared the Company’s Investigational New Drug application for its proprietary oral therapeutic, NNI-362, to proceed into Phase 1 clinical testing in a healthy aged population.