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COVID-19 vaccine strain updates: global regulators agree on timing and data requirements
17 April 2024 - International regulators have published a report today presenting the outcomes of a workshop on COVID-19 vaccine ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Apr 2024
EMA says it will consider conditional approval for NASH drugs using intermediate outcomes
5 April 2024 - The EMA said in a new reflection paper that it will consider granting conditional marketing approval ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Mar 2024
Patient advocates clash over wisdom of ‘approving drugs faster and faster’
26 March 2024 - Over 30 years ago, Gregg Gonsalves and other AIDS activists persuaded Congress to create the accelerated ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Mar 2024
Deliberations at the CHMP regarding the marketing authorisation application in the EU for lecanemab have been rescheduled due to procedural reasons at the EMA
22 March 2024 - Eisai announced today that the oral explanation scheduled for 19 March at the CHMP for lecanemab, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Feb 2024
Regulator acts to close loophole enabling Australian pharmacists to make copycat Ozempic drug
29 February 2024 - The TGA will move to ban compounding pharmacists from making their own versions of injectable weight ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Feb 2024
Added benefit and revenues of oncology drugs approved by the EMA between 1995 and 2020: retrospective cohort study
28 February 2024 - Added benefit was evaluated using ratings published by seven organisations: health technology assessment agencies from the US, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Feb 2024
The FDA isn’t afraid to yank a disappointing drug
26 February 2024 - The FDA is rescinding its approval of a blood cancer treatment from the Swedish firm Oncopeptides, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Feb 2024
FDA issues final decision to withdraw approval of Pepaxto (melphalan flufenamide)
23 February 2024 - Today, the FDA announced its final decision to withdraw approval of Pepaxto (melphalan flufenamide), which was ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Feb 2024
United Therapeutics starts litigation with FDA over rival Liquidia's drug application
21 February 2024 - United Therapeutics said on Wednesday it had filed a case with the US FDA, alleging that ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Feb 2024
Launch of new HMA-EMA catalogues of real world data sources and studies
15 February 2024 - The EMA and the Heads of Medicines Agencies have launched two public electronic catalogues: one for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Jan 2024
CHMP issues negative opinion for renewal of conditional marketing authorisation for Translarna (ataluren) following re-examination procedure
25 January 2024 - PTC Therapeutics announced today that the CHMP of the EMA issued a negative opinion following the re-examination ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Jan 2024
FDA's ISTAND Pilot Program accepts submission of first artificial intelligence based and digital health technology for neuroscience
23 January 2024 - FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research and Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research recently accepted a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Jan 2024
US FDA seeks 'boxed warning' for CAR-T cancer therapies
22 January 2024 - The US health regulator on Monday asked a host of drug makers, including Gilead Sciences, Johnson ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Jan 2024
Human medicines: highlights of 2023
16 January 2024 - In 2023, EMA recommended 77 medicines for marketing authorisation. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Jan 2024
Orphan drug label expansions: analysis of subsequent rare and common indication approvals
8 January 2024 - We found that 491 novel orphan drugs were approved between 1990 and 2022. ...