At Oct. 3 meeting, FDA's Antiviral Drugs Advisory Committee unanimously recommends use of Gilead's antiviral Viread (tenofovir disoproxil fumarate) in adult patients with HIV infection who have received prior antiretroviral therapy. Due to a lack of data in treatment-naive patients and other concerns, a majority of committee members favored restricting use to treatment-experienced patients. Gilead is conducting a 601-patient Phase III trial in treatment-naive subjects, and analysis of results should be completed in the first half of 2002
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Advanz Pharma would have had to show that the European Commission’s decision to revoke Ocaliva’s conditional marketing approval risked causing serious and irreparable harm, according to lawyers from Van Bael & Bellis.
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Stefan Oelrich, the newly-announced president of European pharma industry federation EFPIA says the EU pharma reform is “not an improvement on the status quo” in its current form.
Oncology trial sponsors in the UK are being invited to participate in a pilot that aims to tackle duplication and variation in pharmacy reviews, which are an important part of setting up clinical trials in the National Health Service.
The new Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted for new recommendations on the decades-old thimerosal safety issue and lays intellectual groundwork to revisit other past controversies and decisions.