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The FDA greenlit 26 novel therapies in the first half of 2026, including four for cancer and six for orphan indications. Meanwhile, AstraZeneca and Johnson and Johnson took home a combined 11 of the agency’s 79 total approvals, including supplemental nods.
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Last month, the FDA launched TrialBlazer, intended to streamline the IND path and bring early clinical trials and medical innovation home to the U.S. It’s a start, but new agency leadership must see it through.
Significant leadership instability at the FDA—compounded by continued workforce attrition—led to a slight slowdown in overall regulatory productivity in the first half of this year, but the agency has been catching up of late.
Congressional letters sent to the CEOs of Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Merck, BMS and AbbVie this week voicing concerns about the pharmas’ clinical trials in China highlight an ongoing discrepancy in how government and industry think about the rise of the Asian country’s biotech industry.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Eli Lilly’s Reyvow (lasmiditan) for the acute treatment of migraines.
Scenesse is an under-the-skin implant. The drug is the company’s only approved product.
The approval of Beovu was based on findings from the Phase III HAWK and HARRIER clinical trials, in which Novartis’ drug demonstrated non-inferiority versus Eylea in mean change in best-corrected visual acuity at 48 weeks.
The approval was based on data from the Phase III GRECO clinical trial and the Phase I AMES trial.
The only other drug currently approved in the U.S. for HIV PrEP is Gilead’s Truvada (emtricitabine 200 mg/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate 300 mg).
Janssen’s Invokana snagged another regulatory approval to reduce the risk of end-stage kidney disease, cardiovascular death and worsening of kidney function in adults with type 2 diabetes and diabetic kidney disease.
The FDA’s latest approval for Darzalex is based on results from the Phase III CASSIOPEIA trial that showed the addition of Darzalex to VTd before and after ASCT resulted in deeper responses in patients with the blood cancer.
AbbVie’s Mayvret won expanded approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to shorten the one-daily treatment duration from 12 to eight weeks in treatment-naïve hepatitis C patients without cirrhosis and with compensated cirrhosis.
Bavarian Nordic A/S announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved JYNNEOS™ for prevention of smallpox and monkeypox disease in adults 18 years of age and older determined to be at high risk for smallpox or monkeypox infection.
US FDA 510(k) clearance paves the way for an innovative orthopedic product that offers the potential to improve bone apposition and, as a consequence, patient outcomes 1-3