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The FDA intends to place a black box label—its most serious warning—on COVID-19 vaccines, according to reporting by CNN. It is unclear if the warning would apply to Moderna’s, Pfizer/BioNTech’s and Novavax’s shots, or to all age groups.
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The FDA is becoming deeply compromised and increasingly at risk of being permanently transformed in ways contrary to its mission, history and culture.
With $6 billion left in firepower, Pfizer is planning transactions in the hundreds of millions to the low-billions range, particularly in internal medicine and immunology and inflammation, Guggenheim reported.
Long a quieter, locally focused industry, Japanese pharma giants are increasingly looking to the rest of the world for deals.
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Nearly 90% of senior leaders who were at the FDA a year ago are no longer with the agency, a BioSpace analysis shows. None remain from the Office of the Commissioner.
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The FDA has informed Merck, Sanofi and AstraZeneca of the safety investigation into their RSV antibodies, though it remains unclear what regulatory action, if any, will be taken.
The Commissioner’s National Priority Voucher program was launched in June to shorten review times for companies that align with various national priorities, such as improving domestic drug production and supply.