As reported by FiercePharma here, the Supreme Court sided with biosimilar makers regarding the timing of notice to the innovator and agreed that the notice can be accomplished prior to FDA approval of the biosimilar application. Early notice could provide biosimilar applicants up to a 180-day earlier launch, meaning (obviously) a potentially earlier market entry […]
The month of May 2017 may go down as the true turning point in the Office of Generic Drugs (OGD) review and approval process. If not, it will at least go down as the second highest number of approval actions in a single month since the start of the GDUFA program. OGD reported fully approving […]
In what (I believe) is only the second opioid that FDA is seeking to remove from the market because the risk no longer outweighs the benefits of the product (first was the original formulation of Oxycontin), the Agency said “After careful consideration, the agency is seeking removal based on its concern that the benefits of […]
After slogging through some of the FDA dashboards, I came across one that I felt was worthy of mention. The FDA’s Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA) has apparently begun the process of scoring drug manufacturing establishments in their risk-based inspection program. The FDA has been talking about risk-based inspection (as well as risk-based review) ever […]
As reported by FDA WebView (here [subscription required]), FDA announced the appointment of three former congressional staffers Dr. Gottlieb has chosen to add to his current team, as his team builds his vision for the Agency is becoming more clear. And it is not the usual vision we have seen from past commissioners. As an example, […]
Despite great efforts by the FDA and the industry, there still are 55 different drug products under shortage on the FDA’s list (here). While the number of drugs on the shortage list is much lower than we have seen in the past (100+), there is still cause for concern as products move on and off […]
The Office of Generic Drugs (OGD) has provided additional updates to its April 2017 metrics, as reported in the above-referenced document. Not much excitement there but notable for another low month of Refuse-to-Receive (8), which should be good news to industry. In addition, Drug Master File (DMF) reviews hit a low for this fiscal year […]
At the Association for Accesible Medicines (AAM) CMC workshop last week, the issue of first cycle was on a lot of people’s minds. Industry and FDA realize that the only real way to cut down on FDA workload is to get it right the first time. Industry continues to say with the constantly changing requirements […]
Anyone contemplating submitting a drug-device combination product like an autoinjector, prefilled syringe, transdermal patch (yes, transdermal patch), etc., should be prepared to address some of the device regulations or you will likely get a deficiency letter. (To be perfectly honest, if you get these deficiencies, I think you should push back on the FDA, but […]
On May 8, 2017, the US FDA’s Center for Radiological Health announced that it will be establishing a new digital health unit under the Office of the Center Director. This is just the latest step the Agency is taking to try to keep pace with the quickly evolving and rapidly growing digital medical device industry. […]
