A pharmaceutical company is granted orphan designation for a medicine that treats Hunter Syndrome. The company goes on to receive marketing approval for the medicine. The approved medicine is administered through intravenous infusion. This route of administration, while effective for...
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Yesterday, FDA released draft guidance on the use of the Inactive Ingredient Database (IID) in drug development. The guidance is one step FDA is taking to address feedback from the generics industry that IID enhancements are needed to help sponsors make the right formulation...
Connected medical devices, like all other computer systems, are vulnerable to threats that may lead to compromise of data confidentiality, integrity, and availability. To address these challenges, the Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC) Joint Cybersecurity Working Group...
As part of nationwide efforts to address the opioid crisis, FDA is taking a closer look at the development of critical medications that combat overdose deaths. Most recently, FDA announced its intention to prioritize review of ANDAs for drug products...
From fitness tracking to healthy eating to virtual doctor visits, mobile technology places an ever-expanding selection of health management tools and information at our fingertips. With clear benefits, it is no surprise that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is...
Compliance with the EU Medical Devices Regulation (MDR) is a significant undertaking that requires cross-functional collaboration. In this post, we explore key activities involved in strategic planning for compliance. Establishing a leadership team Good leadership is essential for managing the...
Last week, FDA published new guidance, Determining Whether to Submit an ANDA or a 505(b)(2) Application (CDER, 2019), to help Sponsors select the best abbreviated approval pathway for their product. While the guidance does not provide any monumental new initiatives, policies or...
With the looming deadline for compliance with the EU Medical Devices Regulation (MDR), device manufacturers face a host of questions about how to prepare their existing products for compliance. In this post, we provide answers to top questions about EU...
Decades of painstaking research have recently begun to yield gene therapy products that are delivering meaningful benefits to human health. The approvals of voretigene neparvovec-rzyl (Luxturna) for inherited vision loss, tisagenlecleucel (Kymriah) for lymphoblastic leukemia, and axicabtagene ciloleucel (Yescarta) for...
As medical device regulations evolve and global, multi-center studies become increasingly common, a growing number of sponsors are turning to independent committees such as Data Monitoring Committees (DMCs) or Clinical Endpoint Committees (CECs) for assistance with clinical trial oversight. However,...