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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. Food and Drug Administration approved the first treatment for acquired thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (aTTP). Sanofi’s Cablivi was given the greenlight and will become a cornerstone of the company’s new rare blood disorders franchise.
Catalyst won approval in 2018 for the LEMS treatment and set the price of the drug at $375,000 for the rare disease.
Pharnext SA announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted Fast Track designation for the development of PXT3003 for the treatment of patients with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease Type 1A.
Over the next two weeks, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has three upcoming decisions. Here’s a look.
Shares of GlaxoSmithKline took a slight dip Wednesday afternoon after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Mylan NV’s generic version of Advair Diskus, a staple blockbuster drug in the U.K. pharmaceutical company’s pipeline.
The approval of the combination marks a first for the U.S. market. The combination of AbbVie and Janssen’s Imbruvica with Roche’s Gazyva is the first chemotherapy-free, anti-CD20 combination to treat CLL and SLL patients who have not yet started therapy, AbbVie said this morning.
Here’s a look at this week’s calendar for decisions coming down from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Biom’up has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted marketing approval for its HEMOBLAST Bellows Laparoscopic Applicator for all minimally-invasive procedures. Biom’up submitted the premarket approval (PMA) supplement to the FDA in July, 2018.
The Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA) published an article in December saying that paclitaxel-coated balloons and stents manufactured by Boston Scientific and others had an increased risk of death.
The partial government shutdown is 31 days old, yet the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has maintained a steady list of drug approvals throughout that time. However, that approval rate could change next month.