Agency IQ

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Currently, only Article 23a and Article 81 of Directive 2001/83/EC address medicines supply across the E.U. Regulation (EU) 2022/123 became applicable on March 1, 2022, with the exception of most provisions related to medical devices. See AgencyIQ’s analysis of the proposed regulation here.] healthcare systems for years.

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 15, 2020

As the world’s first PPAR pan agonist that completed two confirmatory phase III clinical trials, Chiglitazar Sodium has shown significant and long-lasting hypoglycemic effects in a series of clinical studies, as well as other comprehensive effects including significant insulin sensitization and blood lipid regulation.

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Agency IQ

MARCH 7, 2024

British regulators tease new device regulations in informative live session This week, the British regulator MHRA offered a new peek into its planned medical device regulations. BY COREY JASEPH, MS, RAC | MAR 5, 2024 11:10 PM CST Quick background on medical device regulation in the U.K. post-market regulation here.]

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Agency IQ

JUNE 21, 2024

Commission proposes guidelines to flesh out the newly finalized Variations Regulation This week, the newly finalized Variations Regulation was published in the Official Journal of the E.U. An updated guideline implementing the changes from the new regulation is now open for public consultation until August 23, 2024.

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Agency IQ

JULY 12, 2024

Regulation (EU) 2022/123 , which called for a “reinforced role for EMA in crisis preparedness and management for medicinal products and medical devices,” expanded EMA’s mandate to monitor and mitigate shortages at the E.U. level, including the development of lists of critical medicines during major events that affect public health.

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Agency IQ

JUNE 7, 2024

The devil is in the details: a deep dive into the state of Notified Body designations While the European Commission has been laser-focused on the number of medical device and IVD certificates, AgencyIQ is taking a look at progress toward designating Notified Bodies to the European medical device and diagnostics regulations.

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Agency IQ

APRIL 8, 2024

FDA updates set the stage for broader use of harmonized standards for safety reporting Though long considered a top priority by regulators, the process to standardize and harmonize the submission of individual case safety reports (ICSRs) has been slow. Periodic Benefit-Risk Evaluation Reports ).

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Conversations in Drug Development Trends

MAY 23, 2024

The CRO landscape is rapidly evolving with the recent implementation of the EU Clinical Trials Regulation No 536/2014 (EU-CTR) and the launch of the Clinical Trials Information System (CTIS). This blog delves into the key aspects of the EU regulatory space and provides insights into navigating these changes effectively.

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Agency IQ

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The 174 regulations the EPA is currently working on The Environmental Protection Agency has unveiled its Fall 2023 Unified Agenda, which provides a look into the agency’s regulatory agenda for the upcoming year. The expected release dates of the agendas rarely line up exactly with the actual dates when the agency releases the regulation.

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Agency IQ

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The intent is to create a single market for data, establish common European data spaces, and allow the companies that generate the data to keep control and maintain trade secrets. Regulators wanted input on questions related to data access and re-use, to inform its legislative framework on common European data spaces.

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Drug Discovery World

AUGUST 24, 2023

Of course, while the regulation remains a continuous battle, this does not hinder the research being undertaken. Business: Where is the money? When it comes to something as volatile and irregular in terms of regulation as psilocybin, funding is a key component if the field is to expand and progress.

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Agency IQ

MARCH 29, 2024

What we expect the EPA to do in April 2024 The top line: In this returning feature, AgencyIQ looks at public data to determine what the EPA is planning to do in the month ahead, including deadlines, meetings, events, planned regulations, comment periods, and more. PFAS regulations for drinking water.

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Drug Target Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

5,6 The range of CNS-related toxicities encountered throughout drug development and post-market approval is vast, and includes abuse liability, suicidal ideation, emesis, sleep disorder and cognitive dysfunction to name a few. Ther Innov Regul Sci. 2001 Sep;24(9):517–26. Regul Toxicol Pharmacol RTP. 2018;53(4):519–25.

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Agency IQ

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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FDA Law Blog: Drug Discovery

APRIL 23, 2023

The Draft Guidance also states that sponsors must include in their marketing applications relevant patient-level data for both arms. Additionally, the Draft Guidance states: “Sponsors must include in their marketing applications relevant patient-level data (i.e.,

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Agency IQ

JANUARY 26, 2024

Though regulations guide some aspects of how expiration dates are determined, the agency has but limited power to extend those dates unilaterally. As part of current good manufacturing practice (cGMP) regulations, drugs are required to bear an expiration date determined by “appropriate stability testing,” according to 21 CFR 211.137.

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The Pharma Data

OCTOBER 18, 2020

develops, manufactures and markets wearable robotic exoskeletons for individuals with lower limb disabilities as a result of spinal cord injury or stroke. ReWalk’s mission is to fundamentally change the quality of life for individuals with lower limb disability through the creation and development of market leading robotic technologies.

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Agency IQ

JUNE 16, 2023

Highlights of the EPA’s Unified Agenda for Spring 2023 The Office of Management and Budget has released the Unified Agenda for Spring 2023, which outlines the regulations that agencies expect to release in 2023 and 2024. This information would be used in considering the regulation of asbestos.

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Agency IQ

APRIL 12, 2024

The vote is in: The European Parliament has adopted the compromise pharmaceutical legislation This week, the European Parliament voted to adopt the compromise texts of both the revised pharmaceutical directive and regulation presented by Parliament’s health committee in March 2024. Directive 2001/83/EC and Regulation (EC) No 726/2004.

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FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

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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Drug & Device Law

AUGUST 28, 2023

FDA litigation, back in April, the United States Supreme Court had just stayed what we described as “a truly ridiculous decision purporting to invalidate a number of actions taken by FDA with regard to mifepristone, the only currently marketed approved medication for medical abortion.” 341 (2001), is so important. FDA , 727 F.

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Drug & Device Law

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

FDA litigation, back in April, the United States Supreme Court had just stayed what we described as “a truly ridiculous decision purporting to invalidate a number of actions taken by FDA with regard to mifepristone, the only currently marketed approved medication for medical abortion.” 341 (2001), is so important. FDA , 727 F.

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Drug & Device Law

JULY 31, 2023

2003), an Internal Revenue Service regulation, excluded liability for “product” refund, repair or replacement. 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. , In United States v.

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Drug & Device Law

OCTOBER 23, 2023

312 (2008), that essentially all product liability claims against manufacturers of FDA pre-market approved (“PMA”) medical devices were preempted. Thus, “the MDA sets forth a general rule pre-empting state duties having the force and effect of law (whether established by statute, ordinance, regulation, or court decision ).

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Drug & Device Law

OCTOBER 20, 2023

341 (2001), is so important. 1989) (refusing to “upset the FDA’s scheme for regulating drugs and cosmetics”); Mitchell v. As Bexis put it: In our line of work, much of what we do depends on the continuing validity of what the FDA does with respect to prescription medical products. That’s why Buckman Co. E.g., Estee Lauder, Inc.

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Drug & Device Law

JANUARY 9, 2023

Then, the decision makes a hash of the relevant administrative record, ignoring what the preemptive FDA regulations said in favor of material from the Federal Register that never actually made it into the regulations themselves. The FDA also promulgated an acetaminophen-specific OTC regulation. Buckman Co. 201.326(a)(1).

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Drug & Device Law

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

In product liability litigation generally, plaintiffs have been allowed to invent all kinds of “alternative” designs as long as some “expert” opines that the design (even if never before marketed) is “feasible.” For physicians to prescribe such a safer drug, it must reach the market. Wyeth Laboratories, Inc. , 2d 839, 851 (N.Y.

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Drug & Device Law

AUGUST 24, 2023

Though the Redbirds are having a rough season, few sports franchises have enjoyed such sustained periods of excellence and perennial playoff contention , a laudable accomplishment for a midsized market team without the seemingly bottomless pockets of the New York and Los Angeles teams.

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Drug & Device Law

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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Drug & Device Law

JUNE 24, 2022

Vesoulis was a one-off suit under Louisiana law against the manufacturer of a pre-market (“PMA”)-approved medical device and the implanting – or, more properly, explanting – surgeon. 341 (2001). . April 1, 2022), although the recent troubling trend towards non-precedential defense wins but precedential defense losses continues.

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Drug & Device Law

JANUARY 12, 2024

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.

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Drug & Device Law

JANUARY 30, 2023

341 (2001), with the rejection of the so-called “purposes and objectives” prong of implied preemption by the most conservative justices (at least in terms of federalism) on the Court. Plaintiffs Legal Committee , 531 U.S. Plaintiffs Legal Committee , 531 U.S. Mensing , 564 U.S. Jones , 225 U.S. Davidowitz , 312 U.S. Davidowitz , 312 U.S.

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Drug & Device Law

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Before a biologic may be marketed, the manufacturer must obtain a license from the FDA. 341 (2001). 337(a), which applies to all products regulated under the FDCA, not 21 U.S.C. In the course of denying the motion, the court misconstrued the law at least once and possibly twice. See 42 U.S.C. § See 21 C.F.R. Albrecht , 139 S.

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Drug & Device Law

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The ASR program was initially open to regulated manufacturers of twelve device categories; Intravascular (I.V.) However, the FDA had promulgated an “identification” regulation for this device that stated it was “made of an alloy, such as stainless steel.” 341 (2001). 1999 WL 1133313, at *2. 888.3050(a).

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Drug & Device Law

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

22 (both articles for the proposition that there are “‘many intense side effects’ and ‘significant complications requiring medical attention’” resulting” from FDA’s regulation of mifepristone), at *22 n.37 341, 351 (2001) (rejecting the “sort of litigation [that] would exert an extraneous pull on the scheme established by Congress”).

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Drug & Device Law

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

If unfettered truthful off-label promotion is permissible, then the incentives for regulated entities to spend the large amounts of time and money now required to submit new uses of already approved FDA-regulated products for additional approvals would be reduced. The FDA is concerned, probably with reason, about its own power.

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Drug & Device Law

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Each claim alleges that defendants’ failure to comply with FDA’s regulations is an unfair business practice and/or causes “consumer confusion.” 341 (2001). So, if defendants had been marketing their products as FDA-approved when they were not, that claim may not be preempted as it does not require litigation of an FDCA violation.

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