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Regulatory/FDA

FDA Accelerated Approval Program Is Under Spotlight Again with Makena

FDA Accelerated Approval Program Is Under Spotlight Again with Makena

Oct. 28, 2022 – The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) accelerated approval process is being scrutinized anew following a recent FDA advisory committee recommendation to remove from the market Covis Pharma’s Makena, a drug that received an accelerated approval in 2011 to help prevent pre-term births. According to a September report from the Office of […]

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Uncategorized

FDA Proposes Increased Consumer Access to Nonprescription Drugs, with Conditions

FDA Proposes Increased Consumer Access to Nonprescription Drugs, with Conditions

July 11, 2022 – Providing a new pathway for drug companies and consumers that would enable additional drugs to become available without a prescription is the goal of a recent proposed rule from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The proposed rule, issued on June 28, would allow the FDA to approve nonprescription drug products […]

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Legislative

User Fee Legislation Markup Suggests Added FDA Regulatory Authorities

User Fee Legislation Markup Suggests Added FDA Regulatory Authorities

May 17, 2022 – Considering that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) receives nearly half of its funding from medical product user fees, the timely reauthorization of user fees before the current iteration expires Sept. 30 is paramount to ensuring smooth product review operations. But this “must-pass” legislation opens the door to additional priorities and […]

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General

Clinical Trials Not Sufficiently Diverse – and Diversity Data Often Not Reported

Clinical Trials Not Sufficiently Diverse – and Diversity Data Often Not Reported

May 9, 2022 – New analyses of clinical trials conducted in the United States and in Europe on potential new drugs found that not only were study populations not as diverse as the general population, but that frequently no race or ethnicity data was included in the trial reports, and sometimes not even gender data. […]

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Regulatory/FDA

CMS Sticks to Plan: No Aduhelm Coverage Unless in Clinical Trial

CMS Sticks to Plan: No Aduhelm Coverage Unless in Clinical Trial

April 12, 2022 – Despite roughly 10,000 public comments and intense lobbying regarding a draft national coverage determination for the controversial Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm, last week the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced it will retain the proposal’s coverage plan: Medicare will only fund prescriptions of Aduhelm for patients enrolled in randomized, controlled […]

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Washington Focus

Biden’s 2023 Budget: Big Increases for FDA, CDC, Pandemic Preparedness

Biden’s 2023 Budget: Big Increases for FDA, CDC, Pandemic Preparedness

April 4, 2022 – The fiscal year (FY) 2023 budget proposed by President Joe Biden last week emphasizes fiscal restraint more than new, big spending programs, but it does ask for increased funding for pandemic preparedness, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and projects such as the Cancer Moonshot and the Advanced Research Projects Agency […]

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Regulatory/FDA

Myers: Data Will Drive Califf’s Decisions at FDA

Myers: Data Will Drive Califf’s Decisions at FDA

March 14, 2021 – Nearly a month after being sworn in for the second time as Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner, Robert Califf, M.D., has a lot on his plate, including the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic — and lessons learned about processes and the harms of misinformation – as well as a call for clinical […]

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Regulatory/FDA

Fallout from Aduhelm Decision Could Undermine FDA Accelerated Approval Process

Fallout from Aduhelm Decision Could Undermine FDA Accelerated Approval Process

March 7, 2022 – Newly appointed Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf, M.D., who is returning to the position he briefly held during the Barack Obama administration, faces a daunting challenge as he begins anew: coming to terms with how the agency’s controversial accelerated approval of Biogen’s Aduhelm (aducanumab) to treat Alzheimer’s disease affects […]

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Rawson: Biden Health Policy Priorities Include COVID, ARPA-H, Moonshot

Rawson: Biden Health Policy Priorities Include COVID, ARPA-H, Moonshot

Feb. 21, 2022 – During President Joe Biden’s first year in office, his administration’s health policy team has faltered, made missteps and miscalculations on COVID-19 decisions and communication, and took more than a year to secure a permanent Food and Drug Administration Commissioner (Robert Califf, M.D., was confirmed to take the helm on Feb. 15). […]

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Legislative

Delays Add Pressure to User Fee Legislative Process

Delays Add Pressure to User Fee Legislative Process

Feb. 14, 2022 – Negotiations for prescription drug and medical device user fee legislation are running behind schedule and legislators are concerned about the timeline for the Prescription Drug User Fee Amendments VII (PDUFA VII), the Medical Device User Fee Amendments (MDUFA) and other user fee bills. Because the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) receives […]

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