Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Cel-Sci, CSL, Nascent, SAB, Taiho, Zucara.
The annual U.S. budget scrum is well underway in Washington, with drug pricing a persistent theme on Capitol Hill. Lawrence Tabak, acting director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), said NIH’s view is that federal government exercise of march-in rights “is not the instrument to regulate drug pricing” as it would alienate drug makers and their investors, but Tabak vowed that the appropriate use of march-in rights is the subject of intense focus at the Department of Health and Human Services.
Danco Laboratories LLC’s Mifeprex (mifepristone) and Genbiopro Inc.’s generic got another temporary reprieve April 19 from a court order that would tighten access to the abortion drug.
Australia’s Department of Health is seeking input from the public on the country’s health technology assessment process that informs decisions about what drugs or devices should be reimbursed and under what circumstances a therapy should be subsidized and at what cost to the taxpayer.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Abbvie, Adverum, Avenue, Basilea, Biosyngen, Gamida, Huidagene, Hutchmed, Hyloris, Madrigal.
Sanofi SA’s antitrust challenge of Mylan Inc.’s “exclusionary conduct” in the epinephrine auto-injector market met the end of the road April 17 when the U.S. Supreme Court denied cert.
Pharma groups are calling on Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) to reconsider its current drug pricing policies that include annual price cuts on innovative drugs.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: 2seventy, Abbvie, Affamed, Bristol Myers Squibb, Candel, Hanchorbio, Intelgenx, Lundbeck, Novo Nordisk, Otsuka.
Providing a much-needed lift to struggling Gamida Cell Ltd., the U.S. FDA has approved the firm’s advanced cell therapy Omisirge (omidubicel-onlv) to reduce the risk of infection in patients with hematologic malignancies aged 12 years and older who are scheduled to have umbilical cord blood transplantation.
After issuing three prior complete response letters, the U.S. FDA finally granted approval via the 505(b)(2) NDA pathway to Intelgenx Corp.’s Rizafilm Versafilm to treat acute migraine.