FDA's inaugural quarterly web posting of early safety signals with marketed drugs and biologics has left investors bewildered over how to interpret the listings. But the presence of rigorous risk management programs may be a comforting factor for Wall Street and Big Pharma.
By Rebecca Jungbauer
Transparency can lead to clarity, but not always.
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Lawmakers should address FDA staff upheaval and help the agency “get back on track,” former agency Chief of Staff Elizabeth Jungman said, while CBER Director Vinay Prasad told staff he is asking ex-colleagues to return to the agency.
NRx Pharma is trying to capitalize on the headlines about a new US FDA hyper-fast review program, illustrating that the lack of details in the FDA’s announcement is an opening for sponsors to try to grab some attention.
A survey asks FDA staff to disclose whether DEI policies caused discrimination or resulted in disciplinary action against career employees over the past five years, but uses a web form that the general public also can access.
Denmark is shaking up clinical trial timelines with a new process for reviewing applications for early-phase mono-national trials that is twice as fast as the standard timelines in the EU and the UK.
Clarity on what transferable exclusivity vouchers may look like for new antimicrobial drugs could be nearing. Denmark’s new presidency of the Council of the EU has prioritized concluding its negotiations with European Parliament over the legislative overhaul of the EU’s pharmaceutical legislation.
After pursuing Alchem International for breaches of EU antitrust rules – relating to a cartel over the SNBB pharmaceutical ingredient used in Buscopan and its generics – the European Commission has now hit the firm with a €489,000 fine.
Bayesian statistics could help clinical trial sponsors to include external information in their analyses, but concerns around bias and incorrect conclusions remain, the European Medicines Agency said.
