FDA Reform Bill Would Give Commissioner Fixed Term, Add Review Board

The Health and Human Services secretary told a Senate appropriations subcommittee that placebo-controlled trials may not be necessary to ensure vaccine safety as the FDA released a framework requiring them for COVID-19 vaccines.

European companies, in particular small and midsize enterprises, spin-offs and start-ups have a hard time expanding within the single market “because of a complex regulatory framework that is perceived as slow and burdensome,” according to the European Commission.

The Council of the EU wants to adopt its negotiating position on the reform of the general pharmaceutical legislation “sooner, rather than later,” but divergence between member states could push negotiations back another year, a European Commission policy officer said today.

In an interview with the Pink Sheet, Fonadazione Telethon’s Stefano Benvenuti discusses how companies developing and marketing rare disease treatments can overcome the challenges presented by EU-joint clinical assessment evidence requirements.