Senate Aging Committee hearing addresses generic drug priority reviews at FDA, compounding and publicizing a “watch list” of off-patent drugs with no competition as ways of deterring dramatic price increases for such products.
FDA should be able to establish a priority review process for generic drugs where there is minimal price competition for an off-patent drug, Gerard Anderson, professor of health policy and management at Johns Hopkins University, told the Senate Special Committee on Aging at a Dec. 9 hearing.
Such an approach would help to deter drug firms like Turing Pharmaceuticals AG and Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc....
The termination of the HHS Secretary’s Committee on Human Research Protections closed an important forum for discussing pediatrics and pregnancy in clinical trial design, a former SACHRP chair said.
The state's Prescription Drug Affordability Board, the oldest of a growing list of the boards, chose six drugs for affordability reviews and has the authority to set a ceiling on the amount state and local government payers would reimburse for them.
A 26 June deadline looms for the final guidance even though a draft guidance was removed from the agency’s website to comply with President Trump’s gender ideology executive order. The concepts underpinning the guidance are still relevant, legal experts say.
Pink Sheet reporter and editors discuss CBER Director Vinay Prasad’s expectation to stay out of routine application decisions, despite the agency’s top-down leadership approach, and the extent of proposed FDA budget cuts.
The Pink Sheet explores how regulatory approvals for Leqembi differ around the world, and looks at what is coming next.
FDA regulation was painted as an obstacle to US dominance in the cell and gene therapy space even as panelists at an agency event praised the Office of Therapeutic Products' track record under Nicole Verdun.
Expanded funding for cost recovery could dovetail with FDA Commissioner Martin Makary’s idea for a “conditional approval” pathway based on a plausible mechanism of action.
