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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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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave Akcea Therapeutics and its parent company Ionis Pharmaceuticals the green light for Tegsedi, its treatment for polyneuropathy of hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis in adults.
Genentech snagged a new regulatory approval for its hemophilia treatment, Hemlibra. On Thursday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the medication for hemophilia A patients who do not have factor VIII inhibitors.
Eisai Co., Ltd. announced today that its U.S. subsidiary Eisai Inc. received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for an indication expansion for Eisai’s antiepileptic drug (AED) Fycompa (perampanel)
It looks to be a pretty busy week for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), with a number of target action dates for various drugs. Some were delayed, and some were already approved, but there are still a number on the schedule. Here’s a look.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Eli Lilly and Company’s Emgality (galcanezumab-gnlm) for migraine prevention.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Pfizer’s once-per-day oral medication Vizimpro, a first-line treatment for patients with a rare form of lung cancer, the company announced late Thursday.
The DEA has reclassified GW Pharmaceutical’s cannabidiol epilepsy treatment Epidiolex as a Schedule V product, which will clear the way for commercialization within the next six weeks.
Shares of Verastem closed out Monday trading on a positive note and continues to climb in the premarket following the greenlight for leukemia drug Copiktra, an inhibitor of phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K)-delta and PI3K-gamma.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has a few target action dates scheduled for this week, including one for Sunday, September 23, which was approved in late August.