Ignoring congressional sentiment, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra announced the formal establishment of the Advanced Research Project Agency for Health as an independent entity within the NIH.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Alzecure, Cornerstone, Elevation, Jaguar, Medac, Medexus, Oncotelic, Phathom, Verrica.
About $1.7 trillion in securities of China-based issuers listed on U.S. exchanges could face trading prohibitions in as little as two years, Y.J. Fischer, director of the U.S. SEC’s Office of International Affairs, warned during remarks at the May 24 annual meeting of the International Council of Securities Associations.
The U.S. FDA has rejected Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s drug-device combination to treat the viral skin disease molluscum for a third time, losing more ground to a potential rival from Novan Inc., because of continued manufacturing issues. There are no FDA-approved treatments for molluscum contagiosum, which leads to skin-colored or pink lesions and affects around 6 million people in the U.S. annually.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Alpine, Antios, Assembly, Blue Lake, Ceruvia, CSL, Dermavant, ENB, Immune, Merck & Co., Neuronascent, Noveome, Ocugen, Roche, Synlogic, United, Xcovery.
An executive compensation consultant is facing both civil and criminal charges related to insider trading in advance of an acquisition announcement by one of his clients, Kadmon Holding Inc.
With drug shortages becoming a fact of life during the pandemic, the U.K.’s Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is issuing two guidances to help ensure access to essential medicines in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, especially during shortages and public health emergencies.
Dermavant Sciences Inc. has received its first FDA approval with the agency’s blessing of Vtama (tapinarof) for treating plaque psoriasis in adults. The treatment is also the first FDA-approved, steroid-free topical medication in its class in addition to being the first psoriasis novel topical chemical entity introduced to the market in the past 25 years.
The U.S. FDA’s approval, in recent years, of new medicines that can fight certain drug-resistant bugs makes it possible to conduct noninferiority trials of potential antibacterial therapies in patients with infections caused by those bugs since active controls are now available.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Altamira, Astrazeneca, Bharat, Biohaven, Depymed, Eiger, Greenwich, Immunitybio, Immunogen, Nymox, Ocugen, Regeneron, Salubris, Sanofi, Therapeuticsmd.
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