April 18, 2022 – A recent enforcement letter from the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) to Bausch Health Companies Inc. takes issue not only with omission of risk information in a direct-to-consumer (DTC) video and a webpage of a healthcare professional website, but also with a lack of balance […]
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Feb. 28, 2022 – Comments made in a video interview by CytoDyn Inc.’s former president and CEO suggesting that the investigational new drug (IND) leronlimab provides a clinical benefit for those who have COVID-19 were the subject of the FDA Office of Prescription Drug Promotion’s (OPDP’s) first Warning Letter of 2022. “The video makes conclusory […]
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Jan. 31. 2022 – Presenting drug benefit information without also including risk information in a social media post on Instagram misbrands Eli Lilly’s Trulicity® according to a recent enforcement letter to the company from the FDA’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP). In the Jan. 19 Untitled Letter, OPDP states that it reviewed the post […]
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Dec. 13, 2021 – Recent FDA Warning Letters calling out promotional claims made about vaping products are interesting in that they were issued not by the agency’s Center for Tobacco Products, but by the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER). “Although the FDA has been criticized for missing deadlines on approving or rejecting various […]
Read more Aug. 30, 2021 – In an Aug. 9 Untitled Letter, FDA’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) cited Eton Pharmaceuticals Inc. for presenting benefit information in sponsored links for Alkindi® Sprinkle (hydrocortisone) oral granules without including any risk information about the product, which “is used in a vulnerable pediatric population” and may cause serious adverse […]
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July 26, 2021 – The FDA’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) cited Amgen for making misleading claims that the delivery of its product Neulasta® through the Onpro® on-body injector is more effective than delivery through the pre-filled syringe (PFS) or is more effective than FDA-licensed biosimilars, which are only available through PFS. OPDP takes […]
Read more May 3, 2021 – Although the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued more than 40 “Pre-Notices of Noncompliance” to companies to encourage voluntarily compliance with a federal requirement to submit all clinical trial data to the ClinicalTrials.gov database, last week the agency issued its first “Notice of Noncompliance” to Acceleron Pharma for not complying […]
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Feb. 23, 2021 – Amid a surge in opioid overdose deaths over the past year – due in part to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its corresponding isolation and lack of employment and support services – the FDA’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) has asserted the agency’s “ongoing commitment to combat inappropriate opioid use.” […]
Read more Dec. 14, 2020 – In a recent Untitled Letter, the FDA’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) states that claims made by Azurity Pharmaceuticals Inc. in a healthcare professional email for XATMEP® (methotrexate) oral solution indicate that Azurity “appears to be promoting Xatmep without presenting the serious risks of the drug in a truthful and […]
Read more Oct. 12, 2020 – The FDA’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) enforcement efforts are picking up steam following a slow start – just one enforcement letter issued between January 2020 and July 2020 – with two recent Warning Letters resulting from complaints through the agency’s Bad Ad Program. In a Sept. 22 Warning Letter […]
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