Members of the FDA's Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee (EMDAC) got a lot to chew on Wednesday as they considered how to assess cardiovascular risks when developing drugs to treat obesity.
WASHINGTON – Leaving a lot of personalized medicine claims in patent limbo, the Supreme Court Monday told an appellate court to reconsider a challenge to Myriad Genetics Inc.'s claims on the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, used in diagnostics for breast and ovarian cancer.
WASHINGTON – A new capital formation environment for small biotechs on their way to going public could be just days away, if the House agrees to the Senate's investor protections for crowd funding.
Despite congressional mandates placing price outside the realm of drug approvals, the U.S. is far from immune to the pricing pressures dominating Europe's approval process.
Although members of the FDA's Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee (ODAC) were admittedly underwhelmed Wednesday by the data for Talon Therapeutics Inc.'s Marqibo, they voted 7 to 4, with two abstentions, that the drug demonstrated a favorable risk-benefit profile as a third-line treatment for adults with Philadelphia chromosome-negative acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).
While other drugmakers are spending billions of dollars in pursuit of the next-generation hepatitis C treatment, Okairos AG is on a quest for the holy grail – a preventive hepatitis C virus (HCV) vaccine.
WASHINGTON – In a decision that will have biotechs reviewing their process patents, the Supreme Court Tuesday ruled that Prometheus Laboratories Inc.'s patents for calibrating the proper dosage of thiopurine drugs used to treat autoimmune diseases are not patentable because they involve laws of nature.
The Supreme Court needed only a few months to determine Prometheus Laboratories Inc.'s process claims weren't patent eligible, but it could take the biopharma industry years to figure out how to live within the new line the court has drawn for process patents, especially those covering diagnostics that advance personalized medicine.
WASHINGTON – Ariad Pharmaceuticals Inc. will have a lot on the line Tuesday when an FDA advisory committee takes a hard look at the data for its sarcoma drug Taltorivc. But for the FDA, it all comes down to one question – do the risks outweigh the benefits?
