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Regulators on both sides of the Atlantic are pushing for the withdrawal of the rare disease treatment that accounted for just 1% of Amgen’s 2025 revenue. Nevertheless, Amgen continues to defend the medicine, which was acquired in the $3.7 billion buyout of ChemoCentryx.
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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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On March 27, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Novartis’ Mayzent (isiponimod) for adults with relapsing types of multiple sclerosis.
The Jacobus LEMS Drug was approved for pediatric patients. However, the approval was based on results from a study of adult patients, which means that doctors could opt to prescribe this medication for adult LEMS patients.
The FDA rapidly reviewed and approved the medication under the FDA’s Real-Time Oncology Review (RTOR) and Assessment Aid pilot program.
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This week has a number of approvals expected by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Let’s take a look.
In September 2018 a leap forward in treating burn victims was made with the approval of Avita Medical’s RECELL Autologous Cell Harvesting Device. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) green lit the California-based company’s burn treatment device that uses a small amount of a patient’s own skin to prepare what is called Spray-On Skin Cells.
Bausch Health, former known as Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved its Duobrii (halobetasol propionate and tazoretene) Lotion for plaque psoriasis.