Yes, even a phase III protocol for a “failed” trial can constitute prior art, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit told a lower court April 1 when it returned Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc.’s patent squabble for a do-over.
The U.K. Medicines and Health Care Products Regulatory Agency is in the thick of its proposed regulatory overhaul for medical technology, which the agency promises will hew closely to the regulations still in deployment in the European Union.
Abbott Laboratories reported the U.S. FDA approval of a new device specifically designed for the repair of leaky tricuspid heart valves. The Triclip was granted a PMA for the treatment of tricuspid regurgitation following the recent recommendation of the Circulatory System Devices Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee for the FDA, whose vote confirmed 13 to 1, with 0 abstention that the benefits of Triclip outweighed the risks.
Context Therapeutics Inc. has submitted an IND application to the FDA to begin a first-in-human phase I study of CTIM-76 in patients with claudin 6 (CLDN6)-positive gynecologic and testicular cancers.
Beijing- and Shanghai-based Sperogenix Therapeutics Ltd. said that China’s regulatory agency accepted the NDA filing and granted priority review of Agamree (vamorolone) for Duchenne muscular dystrophy on March 26.
The U.S. biopharma and med-tech industries are adding their voice to that of Gilead Sciences Inc. in urging the California Supreme Court to review the Gilead Tenofovir Cases, which seek to hold the drug company liable for how and when it developed its pipeline of HIV drugs.
The U.S. FDA issued a draft guidance for premarket applications for class II bone grafting devices, a policy that would supplement a guidance issued nearly two decades ago.
It’s game time for Abbott Laboratories’ 15-minute concussion test now that FDA clearance is in hand. The I-Stat traumatic brain injury cartridge uses whole blood, allowing bedside assessment of patients without lab processing.
Voydeya (danicopan), from Alexion, Astrazeneca Rare Disease, racked up its second global approval as the U.S. FDA greenlit it as an add-on therapy for treating extravascular hemolysis in adults with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), a crowded market with several already approved treatments and more in development.
Novo Nordisk A/S is the latest drug company to be challenged by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who has made tilting at prescription drug prices one of the hallmarks of his tenure as chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee.