Pink Sheet reporter and editors discuss experts’ experience helping drug sponsors negotiate prices with CMS and the FDA’s proposal for a new pathway to update vaccines before a pandemic is declared.
Pink Sheet reporters and editors discuss Pfizer’s abrupt decision to withdraw Oxbryta, the US FDA’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee bringing sponsors of approved products back to discuss labeling changes while competitors are pending, and the new CEO of a generic industry trade association.
Pink Sheet reporter and editor discuss the FDA’s latest advertising enforcement letter, which targeted a migraine treatment TV commercial featuring Serena Williams, and its impact on drug promotion, as well as the now growing list of legal cases targeting agency decisions with Chevron deference overturned.
Pink Sheet reporter and editors discuss the potential fallout if the US FDA’s rare pediatric disease priority review voucher program is allowed to sunset, as well as an upcoming agency advisory committee meeting on potentially banning compounding of the active ingredient in the now-withdrawn pre-term birth prevention drug Makena.
Pink Sheet reporter and editors discuss new developments in the FDA’s plans to regulate artificial intelligence and drugs associated with it, including a new AI Council within CDER, as well as some of the unanswered questions about AI in drug development.
Pink Sheet reporter and editors discuss the take-aways from the landmark first Medicare negotiated drug prices and what additional information remains outstanding.
Pink Sheet reporter and editors discuss former Surgeon General Jerome Adams’ views on how the FDA can better ensure clinical trial diversity, questions about approving a new drug that would be used with a standard of care regimen that is off-label, and the agency beginning to schedule fully in-person advisory committee meetings.
Pink Sheet reporter and editors discuss the US FDA drug approval decisions that could arrive in August, a trial design issue that could ensnare BMS’ Opdivo along with AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi, and the EMA potentially asking all sponsors to provide raw clinical data as part of application reviews.