Moderna files for conditional marketing approval for its COVID-19 vaccine in adolescents in the European Union

7 June 2021 - Submission based on Phase 2/3 study of mRNA-1273 in adolescents ages 12 to less than 18 ...

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EMA raises awareness of clinical care recommendations to manage suspected thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome

7 June 2021 - EMA’s COVID-19 taskforce (COVID-ETF) is advising health care professionals in the EU to consider recommendations by learned ...

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Advancing international collaboration on COVID-19 real world evidence and observational studies

4 June 2021 - Medicines regulators from around the world discussed the importance of global collaboration and information sharing in relation ...

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EU regulators develop recommendations to forecast demand of medicines

3 June 2021 - The EU Executive Steering Group on Shortages of Medicines Caused by Major Events has adopted a ...

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Additional manufacturing capacity for BioNTech/Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine

1 June 2021 - EMA has recommended the approval of additional manufacturing and filling lines at Pfizer’s vaccine manufacturing site in ...

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EMA and EUnetHTA take stock of their co-operation

1 June 2021 - The EMA and the European Network for Health Technology Assessment (EUnetHTA) have published a report on ...

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Diurnal receives European Commission approval for Efmody

28 May 2021 - Commercial launch anticipated in Q3 2021. ...

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Calliditas announces submission of marketing authorisation application for Nefecon to the European Medicines Agency

28 May 2021 - Calliditas Therapeutics today announced that the company submitted a marketing authorisation application to the EMA for ...

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First COVID-19 vaccine approved for children aged 12 to 15 in EU

28 May 2021 - EMA’s CHMP has recommended granting an extension of indication for the COVID-19 vaccine Comirnaty to include use ...

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Tagrisso approved in the EU for the adjuvant treatment of patients with early stage EGFR mutated lung cancer

28 May 2021 - Approval based on unprecedented results from the ADAURA Phase 3 trial where Tagrisso reduced the risk ...

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Insufficient data on use of inhaled corticosteroids to treat COVID-19

27 May 2021 - EMA’s COVID-19 taskforce is advising health care professionals that there is currently insufficient evidence that inhaled ...

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EU seeks large AstraZeneca fine

26 May 2021 - A lawyer for the European Union has accused AstraZeneca of failing to respect its contract with ...

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Medical device regulation comes into application

26 May 2021 - The medical device regulation, which was adopted in April 2017, changes the European legal framework for medical ...

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AbbVie receives European Commission approval of Venclyxto (venetoclax) in combination with a hypomethylating agent for patients with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukaemia who are ineligible for intensive chemotherapy

25 May 2021 -  Venclyxto (venetoclax) in combination with a hypomethylating agent is a new regimen approved by the European ...

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Merck receives positive EU CHMP opinion for Keytruda (pembrolizumab) in combination with chemotherapy as first-line treatment for certain patients with oesophageal cancer or HER2 negative gastro-oesophageal junction adenocarcinoma

24 May 2021 - Recommendation based on significant survival benefit demonstrated with Keytruda plus chemotherapy versus chemotherapy in Phase 3 KEYNOTE-590 ...

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