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An unnamed FDA official also told reporters that it would be good for Moderna to “show some humility” and admit that it didn’t follow the regulator’s recommendations in testing its mRNA flu vaccine.
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Bristol Myers Squibb, GSK and Merck are contributing drug ingredients as part of their deals with the White House but are keeping many of the terms of their agreements private.
Some 200 rare disease therapies are at risk of losing eligibility for a pediatric priority review voucher, a recent analysis by the Rare Disease Company Coalition shows. That could mean $4 billion in missed revenue for already cash-strapped biotechs.
The FDA’s rare pediatric disease priority review voucher program missed reauthorization at the last minute in 2024; advocates have been fighting to get it back ever since.
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The company has agreed to deliver 100 million doses of the vaccines by the end of June.
The end of February and beginning of March is a busy time for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, with a number of PDUFA dates on the calendar.
On Thursday, the company said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration wants to see additional data beyond the Phase III study announced last year.
The U.S. FDA approved Sarepta Therapeutics’ Amondys 45 (casimersen) for patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) who have a confirmed mutation amenable to exon 45 skipping.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved AbbVie’s biologic therapy HUMIRA® (adalimumab) as a treatment for moderate-to-severe active ulcerative colitis in children aged 5 years and older.
The hold comes just after patient dosing began in HGB-210, the company’s Phase III single-arm open-label LentiGlobin trial for SCD patients between the ages of 2 and 50.
The date set by the FDA’s independent advisors for debating that decision is Friday, February 26.
Although problems with actually getting shots into arms have been described thoroughly, manufacturing problems and scale-up haven’t been the focus of much reporting.
The prosecution alleged that sometime in 2018, Holmes destroyed a database called the Laboratory Information System (LIS), which contained three years’ worth of accuracy and failure rates of Theranos tests.
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