The number of standard and priority reviews also decreased significantly in FY 2023 compared to the previous year, which caused the fee for redeeming a voucher to rise.

The US FDA Pediatric Advisory Committee uses web-posted reviews of “low safety risk” products to keep up with postmarketing monitoring requirements amid rising interest in pediatric development.

Advisory committee concerns cast clouds over Iterum’s oral antibiotic, Intercept’s Ocaliva, and perioperative immuno-oncology regimens, while CSL and Pfizer aim to take their hematology franchises in new directions.

With BIOSECURE's legislative progress on pause until after the election, a Pink Sheet infographic looks back on the Capitol Hill progress to date and looks ahead to the potential impact if it is enacted, using Evaluate Pharma data to highlight the likely holes in pharma’s supply chain.

As efforts to improve diversity in clinical trials gain momentum globally, the Pink Sheet asked regulators in the UK, the EU, Canada, Australia and Japan about their efforts to support representative enrolment. 

The EU marketing authorization for the primary biliary cholangitis treatment has now been revoked. Meanwhile the drug's approval is in jeopardy in the US, where an advisory committee will opine on whether the accelerated approval drug has confirmed clinical benefit.

In this third article of a series on new drug reimbursement recommendations by the HTA body NICE, the Pink Sheet finds that fewer innovative medicines are reimbursed in England than in eight other European nations.

Relyvrio/Albrioza, Amylyx’s ill-fated treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, was approved for marketing by the US Food and Drug Administration but rejected by the European Medicines Agency. The Pink Sheet explores how the two agencies applied the available regulatory flexibilities and the impact of other factors, such as regulatory precedence and patient influence, on decision-making.

Big corporations fought to scuttle a California PBM reform bill, despite favoring federal efforts, in part from a desire to be held to one national standard.

But the prospects for attaching the legislation to a federal spending package in December will be dependent on the outcome of the upcoming elections.

Teva resolved two US Department of Justice civil suits accusing the firm of violating the US Anti-Kickback Statute and the False Claims Act by allegedly conspiring to fix the price of three generic drugs and paying Medicare patients’ copays for its multiple sclerosis brand product Copaxone.

Members of the Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee repeatedly challenged Stealth’s assertion that a new randomized trial in Barth syndrome was not possible, but also said potential functional unblinding and other challenges could compromise a new study.

Slow adoption of alternatives to animal testing in the current decentralized regulatory framework

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.

An examination of the global implementation of guidelines from the International Council for Harmonisation by regulators has yielded positive outcomes.

The Philippines medicines regulator explains how it intends to implement the ASEAN mutual recognition agreement under which member states have committed to accept bioequivalence study reports for generics issued by approved BE centers. 

The proposed CMS innovation center's $2 drug list model will not address the barriers to newer generics getting on Part D formularies and plans may have little incentive to participate in the demo, an industry group said. 

The FDA’s vaccine advisory committee endorsed a new plan to update pandemic influenza vaccines “inter-pandemic,” but encouraged the agency to consider how to make the approach feasible for novel vaccine technologies.  

The Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee voted 10-6 that efficacy had been shown for the ultra-rare disease, but even panelists in the majority questioned whether the product satisfied the threshold requirement for an adequate and well-controlled study.

It is time for a much greater focus on pull incentives to ensure viable market conditions for medicines for neglected diseases that are traditionally regarded as unprofitable.