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Covid-19 delta outbreak: major PHARMAC review report delayed by lockdown
22 September 2021 - Act says it is "not good enough" an interim report for a much touted independent PHARMAC ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Sep 2021
1 October 2021 price disclosure confirmed prices
13 September 2021 - Confirmed 1 October 2021 prices resulting from the 2021 October cycle of price disclosure have now been ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Sep 2021
Biden Administration’s prescription drug pricing plan promotes incremental change, not overhaul of system
12 September 2021 - On Thursday, September 9th, the White House released a long awaited plan to reduce prescription drug ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Sep 2021
NHS lung cancer patients in England get early access to ‘breakthrough’ cancer drug
10 September 2021 - The MHRA has approved a first-of-its-kind cancer drug – capable of targeting a gene mutation that ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Sep 2021
MHRA statement on booster doses of Pfizer and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines
9 September 2021 - The regulatory changes made by the MHRA today give further options for the deployment programme. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Sep 2021
Representativeness of participants eligible to be enrolled in clinical trials of aducanumab for Alzheimer disease compared with Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer disease and mild cognitive impairment
9 September 2021 - In June 2021, the US FDA granted accelerated approval for aducanumab to treat patients with mild cognitive ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Sep 2021
Estimated savings from international reference pricing for prescription drugs
10 September 2021 - High prescription drug prices have important implications for health care spending, patient financial burden, and adherence. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Sep 2021
MHRA approves Amgen’s Lumykras under Project Orbis
10 September 2021 - Amgen has announced that is first-in-class KRAS G12C inhibitor Lumykras (sotorasib) has been received a conditional ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Sep 2021
ICER publishes evidence report on treatments for myasthenia gravis
10 September 2021 - While eculizumab and efgartigimod each provide important health benefits, both would need to be priced more than ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Sep 2021
UK approval for Pfizer’s JAK inhibitor Cibinqo
10 September 2021 - The UK MHRA has approved a marketing authorisation for Pfizer’s oral Janus kinase 1 inhibitor Cibinqo ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Sep 2021
PBAC Public Summary Documents (first time decisions not to recommend, deferrals and other matters) – May 2021 meeting
10 September 2021 - The Public Summary Documents (first time decisions not to recommend, deferrals and other matters) from the May ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Sep 2021
Regulatory and clinical consequences of negative confirmatory trials of accelerated approval cancer drugs: retrospective observational study
9 September 2021 - The researchers set out to investigate the regulatory handling of cancer drugs that were granted accelerated approval ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Sep 2021
Decibel Therapeutics receives orphan drug and rare paediatric disease designations for DB-OTO for the treatment of otoferlin related congenital hearing loss
9 September 2021 - Decibel Therapeutics today announced that the U.S. FDA has granted both orphan drug designation and rare paediatric ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Sep 2021
FDA grants breakthrough device designation to the NovoTTF-200T system for advanced liver cancer
9 September 2021 - Novocure today announced the United States FDA has granted breakthrough designation to the NovoTTF-200T System, a Tumour ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Sep 2021
VOR33 granted U.S. FDA fast track designation for AML
9 September 2021 - Vor Biopharma today announced that the U.S. FDA has granted fast track designation to VOR33, the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Sep 2021
Senate considers pegging Medicare drug prices to deeply discounted Veterans Affairs rates
9 September 2021 - Senate lawmakers are actively considering pegging the prices Medicare pays for drugs to those drug makers ...