No matter how you look at the numbers, it was another bad year for new product launches in the US. FDA approved more new drugs than last year, but just barely. And the number of products going off-patent actually exceeded the number of new launches. The sparse crop of new drugs this decade means lean years ahead for the pharma industry.
Michael McCaughan
An optimist would point out that there were almost 20% more innovative new therapeutics approved by the Food & Drug...
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The UK government has acknowledged that sponsors of clinical trials for rare diseases face challenges around patient recruitment and trial design, which will be addressed in its clinical trials reform, a lawyer says.
Clinical trial sponsors in the rare disease space face “big safety demands” from regulators, which can be challenging for those with limited resources. A CRO founder makes the case for “embedding automation” into the clinical trial process to keep pace with regulatory requirements.
The termination of the HHS Secretary’s Committee on Human Research Protections closed an important forum for discussing pediatrics and pregnancy in clinical trial design, a former SACHRP chair said.
A 26 June deadline looms for the final guidance even though a draft guidance was removed from the agency’s website to comply with President Trump’s gender ideology executive order. The concepts underpinning the guidance are still relevant, legal experts say.
A 26 June deadline looms for the final guidance even though a draft guidance was removed from the agency’s website to comply with President Trump’s gender ideology executive order. The concepts underpinning the guidance are still relevant, legal experts say.
Expanded funding for cost recovery could dovetail with FDA Commissioner Martin Makary’s idea for a “conditional approval” pathway based on a plausible mechanism of action.
Julian Beach, interim executive director of healthcare quality and access at the UK drug regulator, the MHRA, tells the Pink Sheet how the agency is responding to increased efforts to develop bacteriophage therapies.
