Today, FDA posted the official ANDA approval actions and receipts for April 2019. While the All Approval list reported 93 full ANDA approval actions and 15 tentative approval actions for ANDAs, when we wrote our first blog estimating the approval actions for April on May 3rd (here) , the official FDA numbers for April reported […]
Today, FDA finalized a guidance document (initially issued in draft in October 2017)that discusses how to best determine if your proposed product should be submitted as an ANDA (505(j)) or an NDA (505(b)(2)). We first blogged about this here. The selection of the type of application to submit has been a source of discussion ever […]
Browsing the daily articles is always fun, whether it is trolling for stories of interest or for something that just makes you want to start banging your head against your keyboard. Today I read an article (here) from the Times of India’s business section. It outlined the number of approvals from Indian-based companies, as […]
So far this FY, total approval actions (note that we are no longer saying approvals) have topped 100 each and every month, from a high of 132 (note that that figure was originally reported as 128, before FDA implemented its revised approval action counting reporting method (see previous post here). While the official April numbers […]
FDA notes that it “identified 62 cases of complex sleep behaviors that resulted in serious injuries or death after taking insomnia medicines eszopiclone, zaleplon, or zolpidem reported in the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) database between December 16, 1992, and February 27, 2018, and four additional cases reported in the medical literature1-5 between December […]
OGD posted an update of its Activities Report of the Generic Drugs Program (FY 2019) Monthly Performance (here) for March 2019. As a mirror image of last month, OGD refused-to-receive (RTR) six (6) ANDAs, four (4) of which were standard review, and two (2) were for priority review applications. OGD sent 95 acknowledgement letters for […]
As I was reviewing the Activities Report of the Generic Drugs Program (FY 2019) Monthly Performance (here) as I do a few times a month, I came across a new footnote to the report. It reads: ++++ = FY19 Approval and Tentative Approval counts were updated in April 2019 to better reflect program output by […]
March 2019 actually saw 89 full approvals and 17 tentative approvals for 106 approval actions (our predictions were off by one). This is another good month for ANDA approvals, but it is also a month that saw the largest number of ANDA submission for FY 2019 at 118. We believe this corresponds to the end […]
The OGD had what appears to be another good month, fully approving eighty-eight ANDAs and tentatively approving seventeen ANDAs for a total of 105 approval actions. While a few stragglers may still be lurking and not yet listed on the FDA All Approvals page (here), it looks like a good and productive month for the […]
The 15 approvals for the generic of Cialis come on the day of the expirations of the 180-day exclusivity enjoyed by the first-to-file applicants. Assuring that the ANDAs gain approval on the first legally possible date that they can be approved means that the price will go down and, when 15 ANDAs receive approval, the […]
