Intravenous artesunate, the international standard of care to treat severe malaria, has finally won full FDA approval for the condition, which affects about 300 of the approximately 2,000 people diagnosed with malaria in the U.S. each year.
As the FDA continues to shift its limited resources to the development and review of COVID-19 therapies and vaccines, other drugs in the pipeline may be delayed. In a question-and-answer guidance released late Tuesday, the agency acknowledged that, going forward, it may not be able to sustain its current performance level in meeting all its goal dates for new drugs and biologics.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Algernon, Amivas, Anivive, Astellas, Azitra, Beyond Air, BMS, Diffusion, Fresenius Kabi, GSK, Immunitybio, Intelgenx, Microbion, Protara, Radius, Regenerx, Regeneron, Relmada, Sanofi, Sorrento.
Nearly four years after differences between U.S. and Russian clinical results derailed an NDA for its pregnancy prevention candidate, Phexxi, San Diego-based Evofem Biosciences Inc. has prevailed, winning FDA approval today for the vaginal pH regulator.
Unpredictable and unaffordable copays for insulin could be a thing of the past for millions of people enrolled in certain Medicare Part D prescription drug plans.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Abivax, Akeso, Algernon, Alnylam, Aurinia, Cytrx, Expression, Hansa, Kala, Neurobo, Novaremed, Orphazyme, Qurient, Rockwell, Sino, Takeda, Zealand.
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s apomorphine sublingual film (APL-130277), a dopamine agonist the company will market as Kynmobi, has won FDA approval for the acute intermittent treatment of motor fluctuations (off episodes) associated with Parkinson’s disease.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Apellis, Astrazeneca, Beigene, Bluebird, BMS, Daiichi, Evofem, Geron, Intercept, Orphazyme, Sunovion.