Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder treatment will launch in first quarter of 2016.
Allergan PLC and Gedeon Richter Ltd. hope to carve out a space in the crowded market of atypical antipsychotics with their new product Vraylar (cariprazine), which has a different mechanism of action.
FDA approved the drug for treatment of schizophrenia and the acute treatment of manic or mixed episodes associated with bipolar I disorder on Sept. 17
Commissioner Martin Makary’s repeated characterization of foreign facilities as being subject to lower standards than domestic counterparts may have contributed to Rogers’ decision to retire as head of the recently formed Office of Inspections and Investigations.
Sponsors reported faster development times for products that joined the pilot program intended to speed rare disease treatments in CBER.
The Trump Administration requested a dismissal or transfer of a lawsuit seeking to tighten the safety requirements for the abortion pill mifepristone on procedural grounds, which still leaves the administration's position on the case's merits unclear.
Some advisory committee members said adding quantitative data on misuse, abuse, opioid use disorder and overdose to labeling would be helpful, but others worried the two epidemiological studies were not sufficiently generalizable to a broader population.
