As agency issues take center stage at a pharmacoeconomics meeting, American Enterprise Institute fellow recommends reorganizing review divisions to accelerate approval of orphan drugs.
Drugs for orphan or rare disorders may get to market faster if FDA had a designated review division for such products, suggests American Enterprise Institute resident fellow Scott Gottlieb.
Orphan drugs present certain unique issues in terms of research and that FDA should create a separate division staffed with...
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research Director Vinay Prasad said Commissioner Martin Makary wants to release previously inaccessible FDA documents, but previous commissioners have made the same pronouncements only to make little progress.
The Pediatric Advisory Committee will review postmarketing safety for three vaccines and the oncologic drugs panel will consider the return of GSK’s belantamab mafodotin. An FDA notice about a 30 July meeting on Capricor’s deramiocel for Duchenne muscular dystrophy was withdrawn.
Sarepta's rAAVrh74 vector, used in the marketed Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene therapy Elevidys and across the company's limb girdle muscular dystrophy pipeline, earned a platform designation as the lead LGMD candidate prepares for BLA filing.
Pink Sheet reporter and editors discuss the potential impact of the Most-Favored Nation drug pricing proposal on Europe, the United States, as well as the pharmaceutical industry.
Recent and upcoming US FDA advisory committee meetings and a summary of the topics covered.
FDA employees are concerned that while the budget authority total proposed for fiscal year 2026 meets the user fee appropriations' triggers, the FDA could have trouble meeting allocation triggers without cuts to non-review work.
The suits are an early test of the Arkansas law banning company ownership of PBMs and pharmacies in the state, as other states consider similar legislation.
