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FDA may not always require post-approval trials to be enrolled before accelerated approvals
30 January 2023 - A FDa official on Monday gave more clues for how the agency plans to wield new authority ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Jan 2023
Medicare drug price negotiation in the United States: implications and unanswered questions
8 December 2022 - The United States is a relatively free pricing market for pharmaceutical manufacturers to set list prices at ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Jan 2023
Update on US FDA emergency use authorisation of Evusheld
26 January 2023 - The US FDA has stated that AstraZeneca’s Evusheld (tixagevimab and cilgavimab) is not currently authorised for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Jan 2023
Patent reform and lower drug prices should be bipartisan priorities
25 January 2023 - As the 118th Congress convenes this month in Washington D.C., many pundits and advocates have little ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Jan 2023
A “method of use” to prevent generic and biosimilar market entry
25 January 2023 - A critical pathway that generics and biosimilars manufacturers have used to circumvent patent thickets has been “skinny ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Jan 2023
The FDA’s power to approve drugs faces sweeping challenge in lawsuit seeking to pull abortion pill from US market
24 January 2023 - Anti-abortion physicians are suing to overturn the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, which dates back more than two ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Jan 2023
Despite court ruling, FDA will continue with its approach to approving orphan drug exclusivity
23 January 2023 - In an unexpected move, the FDA will continue to apply exclusive marketing rights for so called ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Jan 2023
FDA’s breakthrough program: faster drug OKs without sacrificing safety
18 January 2023 - A FDA program markedly cut the time and cost of bringing to market new drugs, without ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Jan 2023
Recent patent reform bills and their implications for prescription drugs
13 January 2022 - In 2022, several bills were introduced in Congress to revamp US intellectual property law. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Jan 2023
Four types of bias in medical AI are running under the FDA’s radar
9 January 2023 - Although artificial intelligence is entering health care with great promise, clinical artificial intelligence tools are prone ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Dec 2022
The FDA’s ‘breakthrough’ program for medical devices keeps gaining steam
28 December 2022 - For medical devices in the Breakthrough Devices Program, 2022 has been a breakout year. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Dec 2022
Congressional report: US FDA broke own protocols in approving Biogen Alzheimer's drug
29 December 2022 - The US FDA failed to adhere to its own guidance and internal practices during the approval ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Dec 2022
New FDA guidance explains that Plan B is not an abortion pill
23 December 2022 - The FDA on Friday altered the language attached to emergency contraceptive pills to clarify that they ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Dec 2022
FDA’s new real world evidence program offers early agency feedback
21 December 2022 - The US FDA is aiming to improve the quality of real world evidence used in regulatory ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Dec 2022
Classifying ageing as a disease could speed FDA drug approvals
21 December 2022 - The FDA considers ageing to be a natural process. This makes it difficult to get FDA approval ...