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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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July looks to be a quiet month for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and it sure looks like the agency is trying to get a lot of work done before the July 4 holiday. Here’s a look at the many approvals scheduled for this week.
Allergan announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved its wrinkle treatment Botox for children with upper limb spasticity. The news comes just days after rumors that the company may break up.
The approval marks the first glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist approved for children and adolescents with type 2 diabetes.
June is turning out to be a busy month for approvals for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The agency has a slate of PDUFA dates this week, including two for Merck alone. Here’s a look.
The Dutch company Xenikos B.V. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved an investigational new drug application to initiate a U.S.-based clinical Phase 3 registration trial in order to test the efficacy of T-Guard for treating steroid-refractory acute graft-versus-host disease in patients following allogeneic stem cell transplantation.
Data from the clinical study showed that 40% of people treated with the Polivy regimen achieved a complete response.
The approval was built on data from the Phase III KEYNOTE-048 clinical trial.
The approval marks Emgality as the first calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) antibody to be approved for two distinct headache disorders.
Hospital-acquired bacterial pneumonia and ventilator-associated bacterial pneumonia are life-threatening hospital-related pulmonary infections that can particularly impact patients who are already dealing with severe underlying medical conditions.
Here’s a look at what’s on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s calendar for the next two weeks.