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Acting Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Director Tracy Beth Høeg reportedly disagreed with staff who wanted to approve Sanofi’s type 1 diabetes drug. It’s far from the first time a political appointee has allegedly meddled in a recent FDA decision.
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The Department of Health and Human Services is spinning its wheels, unable to establish steady leadership at three major divisions—the CDC and the FDA’s two primary review units.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s health department has consistently touted radical transparency as being key to its mission. Recent instances—the FDA’s decision not to disclose the recipients of three Commissioner’s National Priority Vouchers and FDA and CDC choices not to publish vaccine-related papers—call this intent into question.
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The Swiss company’s monoclonal antibody Nemluvio is also undergoing regulatory review for atopic dermatitis, which is a potentially larger market for the first-in-class IL-31 blocker.
On the heels of the FDA’s denial of its petition, a Delaware district court on Monday handed Novartis another loss in its efforts to keep the market free of Entresto copycats.
By the end of the year, Novo Nordisk intends to make a regulatory filing for the combination of its icodec and semaglutide, keeping its once-weekly insulin program afloat.
The acquisition announced Monday will give Crown access to Revance’s Daxxify, a competitor to AbbVie’s Botox, which is indicated for frown lines and for cervical dystonia.
At a private event held amid the fallout from the CrowdStrike incident, cybersecurity issues took a front seat, with the consequences of the evolving EU AI Act and the Loper Bright and Corner Post decisions also raising concerns for quality assurance and regulatory affairs professionals.
Pfizer on Monday reported a “strong neutralizing response” against both subtypes of respiratory syncytial virus across all cohorts and age groups, according to topline data.
The Connecticut-based biotech, which emerged from stealth last year, has secured $202 million to date as it looks to move two assets targeting prostate and breast cancer into the clinic.
FibroGen expects its headcount reduction, which is tied to eliminating 75% of its U.S. workforce, to be mostly complete by the end of the first quarter of 2025.
Ascendis Pharma’s palopegteriparatide was previously rejected by the regulator due to manufacturing problems, and the review period for its resubmitted application was extended by three months.
A day after the regulator denied approval of Lykos’ MDMA-assisted PTSD therapy, a medical journal pulled three studies related to the use of the psychedelic in the indication.