Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Astrazeneca, Clairvoyant, Domain, Origin, Tvardi.
The U.S. FDA wants more data on PTC-518 before PTC Therapeutics Inc.'s phase II study of Huntington’s disease can continue enrollment. While stopped in the U.S., the study of the oral, small-molecule splicing modifier still is enrolling participants at sites in several European countries and in Australia.
In a bit of déjà vu, the U.S. FDA’s Obstetrics, Reproductive and Urologic Drugs Advisory Committee once again voted that Makena (hydroxyprogesterone caproate) should be withdrawn from the U.S. market while a second confirmatory trial is designed and conducted. But this time around, the committee’s 14-1 vote was much more decisive than its 9-7 vote in 2019.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: .Amryt, Carsgen, Intelgenx, Jaguar, Kite, Kyverna, Lexeo, Nkgen, Noema, Prelude, Roche, Vitti, Zhiyu.
The White House laid out several timelines Oct. 18 as part of a national biodefense strategy for countering biological threats and enhancing global pandemic preparedness.
South Korea’s drug regulator should consider revising orphan drug definitions or allow more new innovative drugs to be excluded from pharmacoeconomic assessments, which are required for new drugs to be reimbursed under Korea’s single-payer system, the European Chamber of Commerce in Korea said.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Akeso, Biogen, Decibel, Eureka, GSK, Kira, Mereo, Minerva, Telix.
The FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) came out punching Oct. 17 at the start of a three-day hearing before the Obstetrics, Reproductive and Urologic Drugs Advisory Committee on whether Covis Pharma BV’s Makena (17-hydroxyprogesterone caproate), a branded version of a drug that’s been used since 1956 to prevent preterm births, should be withdrawn from the market.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Atara, Beigene, Biomea, Mirum, Novartis, Phanes, Prestige, Reata, Regeneron, Takeda, Travere.
The U.S. FDA’s regulation of commercial speech under the First Amendment has been controversial and has handed the agency several losses in court, but Arun Rao of the U.S. Department of Justice let it be known that DOJ is still keen on commercial speech enforcement. Rao said the case of Gonzalez v. Google, which will be heard by the Supreme Court, is an example of potentially precedent-setting litigation, and that manufacturers of drugs and devices may experience an uptick in enforcement depending on where the Supreme Court lands in Gonzalez.
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