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In the News: October Regulatory and Development Updates

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Unpacking the (Black) Box: Antares Licenses Urology Product with Boxed Warning. When the FDA requires a product’s labeling to include a boxed warning (also called a “black box warning” because the text is surrounded by black border), the potential market value of the drug often drops severely.

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Should we be worried about pharma’s supply chain?

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We can’t continue to develop drugs the same way as we have done before. A blood-thinning agent, heparin, had been adulterated due to the product license holder (Baxter) procuring a toxic substance that had been illegally substituted for the genuine registered material. The question that I kept asking was why?

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In the News: April 2021 Regulatory and Development Updates

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The public’s faith in drugs approved under the FDA’s accelerated approval program is not blind — it relies heavily on the industry’s follow-through on confirmatory trials and the FDA’s subsequent review and final approval. Drug Product. The meeting was prompted by a publication by Richard Pazdur, M.D., Indication. 7 Yes, 2 No.

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Pharming preps filing for rare disease drug leniolisib after trial win

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Pharming has taken a step closer to getting a second product to market, after its rare disease therapy leniolisib met its objectives in a pivotal trial, setting up regulatory filings in the coming months. As it stands, the only other candidate for the disease listed in the clinicatrials.gov database is generic drug rapamycin.

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Generic pill could be alternative to oral antivirals in COVID-19

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There were also numerically fewer deaths with the antidepressant – 17 out of 741 treated with fluvoxamine and 25 out of 756 allocated to placebo – in the TOGETHER trial, which has now been published in The Lancet. The results back up earlier, smaller studies that also found a benefit with the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI).

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Biosimilars vs. Interchangeable Biological Products: FDA Fact Check

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In order to fact-check some of these misconceptions, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently hosted a webinar on biosimilar and interchangeable biological products to help healthcare professionals understand more about these treatment options. Biosimilars are the “genericdrugs of the biopharma world.

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Decades Later, Congress Continues Debating the Preserve Access to Affordable Generics (and Biosimilars) Act; But will the Recent Jarkesy SCOTUS Decision Finally Put an End to the Insanity?

FDA Law Blog

2117 (2024) was released, that landmark decision “ruled that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) may not impose fines to penalize securities in its administrative proceedings because that practice violates the Seventh Amendment ‘right of trial by jury’ in all ‘suits at common law.’”