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Analysis Life Sciences Thank You The cost of artificially short expiration dates: Worsened shortages, higher costs and more waste

Agency IQ

Samples retained for testing should be kept under similar storage conditions and within the same container-closure system in which the drug is marketed. Such a situation is commonplace in the clinical trial realm, in which investigational drug products which are not already FDA approved are administered to patients.

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Article FDA Thank You In a new final rule, FDA carves out a regulatory niche for medical gases

Agency IQ

In 2001, the FDA issued a guidance to “alert hospitals, nursing homes, and other health care facilities to the hazards of medical gas mix-ups.”

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The role of anti-viral drug development in a new pandemic era

Drug Target Review

12 That drug (tecovirimat) is now FDA-approved and stockpiled by the US and other governments for smallpox treatment, 13 while also being used in clinical practice globally for treatment of mpox and other viruses within the orthopox family. This support is essential if there is likely no established commercial market for that drug.

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Levers for Biological Progress

Codon

More specifically, it reveals that the price to sequence a human genome fell from $100 million in 2001 to $700 by 2021; a stunning collapse in price. Today, a single injection of an FDA-approved gene therapy, called Hemgenix , cures this disease. The cost of sequencing a human genome.

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Marijuana: Top Ten Reasons for Descheduling, Rescheduling or Not

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

Not surprisingly, then-presidential candidate Asa Hutchinson, DEA Administrator from 2001 to 2003, did not sign the letter. The illicit marijuana market remains strong despite state laws legalizing marijuana. The letter is signed by six former DEA administrators and five former Directors of National Drug Policy.

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Another Reason Why The FDA, Not Litigants, Approves Products

Drug & Device Law

Congress created an FDA approval process that is both rigorous and thorough, and pharmaceutical companies invest billions of dollars in research and development to meet FDA’s scientific standards. Biased litigants (and equally biased judges) cannot be allowed to second-guess FDA product determinations. Buckman Co.

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Life-Saving Drugs and Chicken Bones: California Court Expands Innovator Duties of Care

Drug & Device Law

At issue was whether a product manufacturer could be liable to patients taking one drug for failing to bring a different, but allegedly safer drug to market sooner than it actually did. Instead, the plaintiffs claimed that the defendant should have developed and marketed a different drug sooner. Gilead Life Sciences, Inc. at *31-*32.