The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a draft guidance on April 3 providing recommendations to sponsors and testing sites on data integrity for bioavailability and bioequivalence (BA/BE) studies. While the draft...more
It is hard to believe that we are already in February and it has been a month since the 42nd Annual JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco wrapped. It was a packed four days in which the major players in the life...more
The ball has dropped on the healthcare and life sciences industry’s unique New Year tradition, the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, so all eyes turn to 2024. To help define a path forward, Morgan Lewis FDA and healthcare...more
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was busy in 2023 with significant, and even bullish, developments occurring across several areas, from drug and biologic development and manufacturing to labeling, advertising, and...more
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a much-awaited draft guidance on October 24, revising its approach to the dissemination of scientific information on unapproved uses of approved/cleared (collectively referred...more
In a continuing effort to improve the quality system effectiveness of human drug manufacturing sites, FDA revised MAPP 5014.1, Understanding CDER’s Risk-Based Site Selection Model (Site Selection MAPP or the Policy)....more
As drug shortages are once again front-page crises news, demanding drastic action by FDA—currently with a particular focus on sterile, injectable platinum-based chemotherapy drugs—a refresher on the scope of FDA’s tools to...more
While many provisions of the FY 2023 Consolidated Appropriations Act (Omnibus) have received much attention, one has flown under the radar. In its explanatory statement on the Omnibus, the US Congress indicated that it is...more
The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) announced a model on February 14, 2023 that would allow CMS to pay less for drugs approved via FDA’s accelerated approval pathway before a clinical benefit has been...more
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a proposed rule—“National Standards for the Licensure of Wholesale Drug Distributors and Third-Party Logistics Providers” (Proposed Rule)—pursuant to FDA’s obligations...more
While the Biden administration and US Congress continue to debate ways to address perceived prescription drug pricing concerns, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is taking action. Under its Drug Competition Action Plan...more
FDA announced on February 2 that it would be resuming domestic surveillance inspections across all product types, beginning on February 7, in light of declining COVID-19 rates. This announcement follows a series of inspection...more
The accelerated approval pathway (i.e., the pathway that permits FDA to rely on surrogate or intermediate endpoints for the approval of a drug for serious conditions with unmet medical needs) has proven to be an important...more
Earlier in the summer, the FDA issued a quartet of guidance documents setting forth the Agency’s plan for implementing requirements under the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA). The DSCSA directs FDA to build an...more
9/21/2021
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FDA’s Office of Pharmaceutical Quality (OPQ) issued a new Manual of Policies and Procedures (MAPP) in June explaining the agency’s internal procedures for evaluating color additives and flavors in an oral drug product...more
In a May 27 Federal Register notice, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the reinstatement of the Unapproved Drugs Initiative, the FDA’s compliance policy governing marketed unapproved drugs. The...more
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued new guidance describing its current recommendations with respect to master protocols for the evaluation of drugs and biologics to treat or prevent COVID-19. ...more
6/1/2021
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FDA recently issued its first clinicaltrials.gov notice of noncompliance to a clinical trial sponsor for failure to submit clinical trial results to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) databank. ...more
Under President Joe Biden, pharmaceutical regulation may see increased FDA guidance, new strategies to speed up innovation and regulatory review, and a renewed focus on diseases with unmet needs, among other expectations....more
1/27/2021
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The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues to impact the biopharmaceutical industry. In a recent guidance, Resuming Normal Drug and Biologics Manufacturing Operations During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (the...more
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on July 10 that it will resume domestic inspections of regulated facilities and activities using a new risk assessment rating system....more
In light of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued a guidance on adverse event (AE) report for drugs, biologics, medical devices, dietary supplements, and other products...more
The $2 trillion economic stimulus package laid out in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act includes $11 billion in appropriations for vaccines, therapeutics, and other medical needs, and $34.9...more
4/5/2020
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During the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, FDA guidance allows healthcare providers to prescribe drugs subject to Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies without conducting the required laboratory tests or imaging studies....more
The US District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a potentially significant opinion with respect to ClinicalTrials.gov results posting on February 24. If upheld, clinical study sponsors and investigators may...more
3/6/2020
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