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.
There are worse things for U.S. FDA-regulated companies than a warning letter from the agency, but both Abbott Point of Care Canada Ltd., and North American Diagnostics LLC were hit with a warning letter that included citations for failure to comply with the Quality System Regulation (QSR). North American may have believed it was no longer required to comply with the QSR as it ceased the manufacture of its COVID-19 rapid antigen test kits in July 2021, but the FDA advised the company that compliance is required so long as there is some chance that an adverse event arises in connection with the company’s product.
Draeger Inc., of Telford, Pa., reported a recall of several lines of positive airway pressure (PAP) and other ventilation products in connection with problems seen in the adhesive used on breathing circuit components. Draeger said it has no reports of adverse events in connection with separation of the affected components during ventilation processes but has completed its testing of the corrective action and is working to replace the affected devices.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Femasys, Hemovent, Masimo, Neuspera, Rapidai, Syantra.
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.
As expected, the serotonin-dopamine modulator Rexulti (brexpiprazole) from Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. and H. Lundbeck A/S for agitation in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) dementia, found favor April 14 at the joint meeting of the U.S. FDA’s Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee (adcom) and the Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee.
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.
The U.S. FDA has cleared Aroa Biosurgery Ltd.’s 510(k) for its Enivo pump and catheter, which are key components of the company’s new Enivo tissue apposition platform. The device applies negative pressure to a surgical site, helping to reduce fluid accumulation following surgery. It has been cleared for use in removing surgical and bodily fluids from a closed wound for hematoma and seroma prophylaxis following plastic surgery or other general surgeries where large flaps are formed.
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