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A renewal of the FDA’s pediatric rare disease voucher program is couched within a massive $1.2 trillion spending bill the House is set to vote on later this week.
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Only a handful of the top pharmas have signed Most Favored Nation drug pricing deals with the White House, while smaller biotechs continue to hang in limbo.
Policy initiatives have come fast and furious at the FDA this year. While guidances on rare diseases and vaccines have consumed most of the ink, policy shifts aimed at improving FDA efficiencies and reshoring U.S. manufacturing also got some attention. Here, BioSpace rounds up more than a dozen initiatives relevant to the biopharma industry.
With five CDER leaders in one year and regulatory proposals coming “by fiat,” the FDA is only making it more difficult to bring therapies to patients.
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A summary of daily biopharma industry news. Please check out stories that are trending on March 26, 2020.
A day after it was announced remdesivir had received Orphan Drug designation for treatment of COVID-19 from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Gilead Sciences submitted a request for the regulatory agency to rescind that offer after an outcry was raised over the potential for exclusivity for the experimental pandemic treatment.
The same day that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the initiation of a clinical trial using blood plasma from patients who have recovered from COVID-19, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced wider support for the practice.
PerkinElmer is the 16th company to receive an EUA for COVID-19 testing.
A summary of daily biopharma industry news. Please check out stories that are trending on March 25, 2020.
The ointment had previously been approved for patients ages two and above in 2016.
A summary of daily biopharma industry news. Please check out stories that are trending on March 24, 2020.
“Using untested drugs without the right evidence could raise false hope and even do more harm than good and cause a shortage of essential drugs that are needed to treat other diseases,” said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Insys founder John Kapoor is using the coronavirus pandemic as part of his legal defense to remain out of prison while he appeals his January racketeering conviction.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a Completed Response Letter of Eli Lilly and Company and Boehringer Ingelheim’s Jardiance (empaglifozin) for type 1 diabetes.