Regulatory

A patient treated with Astellas Pharma’s experimental gene therapy for patients with X-linked Myotubular Myopathy (XLMTM) has died after a serious adverse event following treatment.
FDA
A recent study suggests that about one-third of cancer indications with Accelerated Approval pathways are still on product labels without follow-up studies confirming their benefits.
FDA
September is turning out to be a busy month for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Here’s a look at this week’s schedule for PDUFA dates.
The oncogenicity and neurotoxicity risks of AAVs and possible mitigation strategies were the primary focus on Thursday.
Henceforth, all JAK-inhibiting drugs like AbbVie’s Rinvoq, Pfizer’s Xeljanz, and Lilly’s Olumiant, have been ordered to include a warning label on the medicine to be sold in the U.S.
Marion Gruber, director of the agency’s Office of Vaccines Research & Review is leaving at the end of October. Phil Krause, OVRR’s deputy director, is exiting in November.
The CDC is taking a proactive stance and establishing a center that will use forecasting and outbreak analytics to guide public health decision-making.
The petition was posted on Monday by shareholder rights law firm Labaton Sucharow.
Shares of Tonix Pharmaceuticals were up nearly 11% in premarket trading after the company announced plans to initiate a Phase II study of TNX-102 SL as a potential treatment for Long COVID Syndrome following a positive meeting with the U.S. FDA.
FDA
The new authorization is expected to be the final reassurance for many of those who had hesitated when the vaccine was approved under emergency use only.
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