EMA recommends COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca for authorisation in the EU

29 January 2021 - COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca is now authorised across the EU. This follows the granting of a conditional marketing ...

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Biogen and Eisai announce FDA's 3 month extension of review period for the biologics license application for aducanumab

29 January 2021 - The new Prescription Drug User Fee Act action date set by the FDA is 7 June ...

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First COVID-19 vaccine safety update published

29 January 2021 - Today EMA has released its first safety update on a COVID-19 vaccine — Comirnaty.  ...

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AstraZeneca vaccine warnings based on maths, not safety

29 January 2021 - The warning from the German health ministry’s vaccine committee that the AstraZeneca jab should not be ...

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Germany moves to exclude seniors from AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine

28 January 2021 - Ahead of its expected approval for use by Europe’s medicines regulator Friday, Germany’s vaccine committee has recommended ...

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AstraZeneca, Pfizer hope to meet vaccine supply dates despite ‘fluid’ Europe situation

28 January 2021 - Pfizer and AstraZeneca warn global supply chain issues and the European Union’s plan to add control ...

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M6P Therapeutics receives six rare paediatric disease designations from the U.S. FDA for company’s deep pipeline of programs for lysosomal storage disorders

28 January 2021 - U.S. FDA also grants two orphan drug designations for the company’s gene therapy programs for Gaucher disease ...

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Bio-Thera Solutions announces FDA accepts biologics license application for BAT1706, a proposed biosimilar to Avastin

28 January 2021 - Bio-Thera Solutions today announced that the U.S. FDA has accepted its biologics license application for BAT1706, a ...

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Advocacy groups urge Biden administration not to tap Woodcock as FDA commissioner

27 January 2021 - As the Biden White House attempts to fashion its health policies, a coalition of consumer and ...

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Clarification of Comirnaty dosage interval

28 January 2021 - EMA’s human medicines committee (CHMP) has updated the product information for the COVID-19 vaccine Comirnaty to ...

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TGA to rule on psychedelic drug access for mental health problems

28 January 2021 - A group of prominent Australians is continuing to push for greater access to psychedelic drugs to ...

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E.U. and U.K. fighting over scarce vaccines

27 January 2021 - As vaccine production falls behind schedule, and the European Union lags in inoculating people, Brussels and London ...

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EU demands UK made AstraZeneca vaccine doses

27 January 2021 - The EU has urged pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca to supply it with more doses of its COVID-19 ...

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European Medicines Agency accepts GBT’s marketing authorisation application for Oxbryta (voxelotor) for the treatment of haemolytic anemia in sickle cell disease

27 January 2021 - Global Blood Therapeutics today announced that the EMA has completed the validation of GBT’s marketing authorisation application ...

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Australia’s COVID-19 vaccine information campaign begins

27 January 2021 - The Australian Government’s $23.9 million public information campaign to encourage Australians to get a COVID-19 vaccine begins ...

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