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

Agency IQ

JULY 8, 2024

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.” It also proposed several packaging changes to safeguard against misidentification. However, the proposed rule sat in limbo for years without ever being finalized.

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Article EMA Thank You European Commission reveals action plan to address medicines shortages

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NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Currently, only Article 23a and Article 81 of Directive 2001/83/EC address medicines supply across the E.U. The provision aims to ensure patient access to medicines where they have been marketed. healthcare systems for years. Several legislative efforts are under way to ensure supply of medicines in the E.U.

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Article EMA Thank You New EC report dives deep to better understand shortages of critical medicines

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JULY 12, 2024

In October 2024, the European Commission published a communication putting forth a package of reforms to address medicines shortages. Next, the European Commission collected data from marketing authorization holders, suppliers and national competent authorities for the selected medicines. Read AgencyIQ’s analysis of the non-paper.]

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

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JANUARY 26, 2024

Samples retained for testing should be kept under similar storage conditions and within the same container-closure system in which the drug is marketed. In 2001, the American Medical Association (AMA) conducted a survey of relevant stakeholders – including PhRMA, the U.S.

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Article EMA Thank You The devil is in the details: a deep dive into the state of Notified Body designations

Agency IQ

JUNE 7, 2024

The regulations increase focus on post-market requirements and expect continuous and instantaneous updates to all reports and documents when either the product or the benefit-risk ratio changes. Key Documents and Dates Single Market Compliance Space (NANDO) database Notified Body applications for designation

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Article EMA Thank You New MHRA Windsor Framework documents guide post-Brexit flow of medicines for U.K., Great Britain, and the E.U.

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AUGUST 4, 2023

This past week, the MHRA provided guidance on labeling of medicines destined for Northern Ireland, with provisions to ensure that medicines only move into Northern Ireland market and don’t re-enter E.U. The European centralized marketing authorization procedure is no longer a valid medicines approval pathway for the U.K. member states.

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Article FDA Thank You FDA updates set the stage for broader use of harmonized standards for safety reporting

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APRIL 8, 2024

Since these issues could occur during the investigational phase of clinical development as well as in the post-marketing setting—and product status could very well differ by country/region—ICH members determined that these guidelines should be developed to facilitate the exchange of information in both settings.

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Article EMA Thank You Commission proposes guidelines to flesh out the newly finalized Variations Regulation

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JUNE 21, 2024

For products that seek approval through the “centralized marketing authorization application,” the EMA’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) conducts a scientific evaluation and issues a positive or negative opinion on whether an authorization should be granted. Conversely, authorization in specific E.U.

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Where is the promise for plant-based medicines? Part 2: Psilocybin

Drug Discovery World

AUGUST 24, 2023

Within the debate, an e-petition was presented, which closed in February 2023 and received 11,824 signatures, and called on the government to reschedule psilocybin for medical research on untreatable conditions to Schedule II of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001. million of the investment is dedicated to mental health research 7.

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Article EMA Thank You The vote is in: The European Parliament has adopted the compromise pharmaceutical legislation

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APRIL 12, 2024

Directive 2001/83/EC and Regulation (EC) No 726/2004. Additionally, reform package included revisions of the regulations for pediatric medicines and orphan drugs. For the regulation , this centered on market exclusivity for orphan drugs and whether there should be a separate category for medicinal products addressing unmet need.

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Analysis Chemical Thank You What we expect the EPA to do in April 2024

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MARCH 29, 2024

April 2024 Market-Based Approaches Under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Program (Proposed Rule Stage) 2040-AG02 EPA supports market-based mechanisms, including water quality trading under the Clean Water Act (CWA). EPA plans to continue its outreach efforts with affected parties.

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Analysis Chemical Thank You The 174 regulations the EPA is currently working on

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

For this routine MUR, EPA will only consider new methods or method revisions for which a complete, acceptable method package has been received by January 7, 2022. This routine Methods Update Rule (rMUR) was proposed in February 2023. EPA is not considering methods for new analytes in this routine MUR.

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Analysis Chemical Thank You Highlights of the EPA’s Unified Agenda for Spring 2023

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JUNE 16, 2023

For increased flexibility in bringing PIPs to market, a developer can also submit both. Market-based mechanisms include water quality trading under the Clean Water Act (CWA), an approach that may cost less than more traditional regulatory approaches. EPA is reviewing the comments received and is planning to issue a final rule.

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How the Fifty States View Electronic Data as a “Product”

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JULY 31, 2023

no[r] a marketing product” under Lanham Act). 2001); Isham v. 2001), relied on these other statutes to hold that a road could not be a “product”). Leading Market Technologies, Inc. , 2016) (applying Georgia law), held that digital marketing software was “a service and not a product.” Gray Loon Outdoor Marketing.

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Unimpressed Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

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MAY 30, 2022

2001) (no warning causation notwithstanding heeding presumption where prescriber testified that “the risk of him having a problem due to his [condition] was much greater than him taking the [drug]”) (applying Oklahoma law); Porterfield v. 2001), aff’d , 358 F.3d Stryker Co. , 3d 568, 576-77 (6th Cir. Parke, Davis & Co. ,

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Confident Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

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JUNE 6, 2022

Because we encountered many stand up learned intermediary surgeons in the Bone Screw litigation, several of the relatively early decisions from the 1999-2001 timeframe are Bone Screw cases. 2001) (no causation where medical personnel “had no alternative other than to use the. . . Smith & Nephew Richards, Inc. , 2d 35, 41 (D.D.C.

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A Texas Mess

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JANUARY 4, 2024

purchase, marketing, promotion, . . development, clinical testing or investigation, distribution, purchase, marketing, promotion, sale, purchase, or use” of an immune covered countermeasure. 247d-6d(b)(8). Strike two. The suit “relates to” – at least – “the. . . development, clinical testing or investigation, . . Strike three.

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

Article EMA Thank You European Commission reveals action plan to address medicines shortages

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Article EMA Thank You New EC report dives deep to better understand shortages of critical medicines

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

Article EMA Thank You The devil is in the details: a deep dive into the state of Notified Body designations

Article EMA Thank You New MHRA Windsor Framework documents guide post-Brexit flow of medicines for U.K., Great Britain, and the E.U.

Article FDA Thank You FDA updates set the stage for broader use of harmonized standards for safety reporting

Article EMA Thank You Commission proposes guidelines to flesh out the newly finalized Variations Regulation

Where is the promise for plant-based medicines? Part 2: Psilocybin

Article EMA Thank You The vote is in: The European Parliament has adopted the compromise pharmaceutical legislation

Analysis Chemical Thank You What we expect the EPA to do in April 2024

Analysis Chemical Thank You The 174 regulations the EPA is currently working on

Analysis Chemical Thank You Highlights of the EPA’s Unified Agenda for Spring 2023

How the Fifty States View Electronic Data as a “Product”

Unimpressed Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

Confident Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

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