The agency maintains maximal usage trials are essential in sunscreen ingredient GRASE assessments, despite industry objections that the tests have not been used for UV filters and no protocol is established. FDA’s final guidance closely mirrors its draft issued a year ago, which stakeholders projected would further delay consumer access to updated sunscreen products.
FDA suggests the GRASE evaluation framework for OTC sunscreen ingredients allows flexibility in testing, but its final guidance on necessary safety and effectiveness data maintains the hard line that industry advocates have disputed for the past year.
Notably, the agency continues to recommend that sponsors of time and extent application provide data from maximal usage trials (MUsTs)...
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.
The legislation expected to be signed by President Trump is a mixed bag for pharmaceutical manufacturers depending on their product mix and manufacturing situation.
Industry experts forecast the impact of President Trump's Most-Favored Nation drug pricing policy on the commercial insurance industry.
Industry experts forecast the impact of President Trump's Most-Favored Nation drug pricing policy on the commercial insurance industry.
New members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices suggested concerns beyond myocarditis, questioning whether test-negative observational studies are giving an incorrect picture of effectiveness.
The plan could curtail a period of pricing flexibility for newer subcutaneous versions of important oncology drugs.
