The US Food and Drug Administration has taken steps to make it easier for patients with serious or immediately life-threatening illnesses to be treated under the agency's expanded access, or compassionate use, program1-3.
The US Food and Drug Administration has taken steps to make it easier for patients with serious or immediately life-threatening illnesses to be treated under the agency's expanded access, or compassionate use, program1-3.
The program allows patients to be treated with experimental drugs in cases where there are no comparable alternatives.
The Health and Human Services Secretary made incorrect statements about the status of key industry priorities at a recent House hearing, which actually may be a good thing for drug sponsors.
HHS and its agencies violated the law by swiftly implementing “sweeping and poorly thought-through directives that ordered the bulk removal of healthcare resources,” including FDA draft guidances on diversity action plans and sex differences in clinical trials, a federal court said.
Industry associations EFPIA, EUCOPE and EURORDIS have praised the European Commission’s newly launched life sciences strategy, which will see investment funnelled into improving the clinical trial ecosystem and supporting advanced therapy development.
