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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 lynchpin to biotech and pharmaceutical drug development in the United States is arguably the greater Boston area, which includes the white hot square mile of talent and intellectual collaboration found in Kendall Square.
EMD Serono, a unit of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved Mavenclad (cladribine) for adults with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) and active secondary progressive disease (SPMS).
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There are three companies looking for decisions by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week. All three drugs are either resubmissions or have had to deal with various problems related to manufacturing or incomplete data. Here’s a look.
Cambridge, Mass.-based Sarepta Therapeutics announced data from its interim analysis of muscle biopsy endpoints of its therapy casimersen for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). The interim data was strong enough to support a probable New Drug Application (NDA) submission to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by mid-year.
Gottlieb said the FDA believes there should be a premarket demonstration that a new opioid is superior to an already-approved opioid.
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Novartis will quickly roll Mayzent out to U.S. physicians. The Swiss pharma giant plans to make the drug available within one week of the FDA approval.
Shares of Jazz Pharmaceuticals are climbing in premarket trading following a late Wednesday announcement that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted approval for Sunosi, a treatment for people with narcolepsy.
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Hitachi Chemical Diagnostics, Inc., a global leader in multiplex allergy in vitro diagnostics, announced today that it received 510 clearance from the U.S Food and Drug Administration for its new high capacity allergy testing instrument, OPTIGEN® AP 3600TM.
The approval of Zulresso marks the first and only treatment for postpartum depression (PPD) approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
This approval marks the first new initial treatment option for this difficult-to-treat type of lung cancer in more than 20 years.