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New Drug Miplyffa Approved for Rare Niemann-Pick Disease Type 3

PLOS: DNA Science

FDA approved a treatment for type 3 of the ultra-rare genetic disease September 20. The new drug is taken with miglustat , which FDA approved for use in NPD3 in 2009. The original approved was in 2003 to treat a type of Gaucher disease. Until today, there were no approved therapies in the US.

Disease 52
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Analysis Life Sciences Thank You FDA’s nonprescription advisors find no efficacy for phenylephrine

Agency IQ

Until recently, the FDA relied on a monograph process through which firms could bring OTC drugs to market without FDA approval so long as it adhered to pre-set terms under the monograph. The meeting’s outcome did not receive a rave review from former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, who led the agency between 2017 and 2019.

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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 earliest tenured is John Bartels, who served as Administrator from 1973 to 1975. Studies have found that marijuana access has public health benefits by reducing the rates of opioid use and opioid deaths.

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NPP, DCC, And FDA-Regulated Medical Products

Drug & Device Law

A hundred years later, we detailed three rounds of litigation over Massachusetts’ serial efforts to ban, or at least substantially limit, the use of FDA-approved pain medications. 644 (2003), but not to Pike. Other state laws affecting FDA-approved drugs are more likely to have the required protectionist bent.