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Amgen Reports Second Quarter 2021 Financial Results

The Pharma Data

today announced financial results for the second quarter of 2021. Product sales increased 3% globally, driven by double digit volume growth across a number of our products including Prolia ® (denosumab), Repatha ® (evolocumab) and our biosimilar products MVASI ® (bevacizumab-awwb) and KANJINTI ® (trastuzumab-anns). on a non-GAAP basis.

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FDA Knows Its Own Strength—and It Includes Concentration

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

Amongst other things, FDA co-opted many of the same definitions for key terms for implementation of the BPCIA. Specifically, Boehringer asked FDA to interpret “strength” for biosimilars to mean “total drug content” to the exclusion of “concentration.” FDA thus disagrees that such differences are not clinically meaningful.

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Biogen Announces FDA Approval of Plegridy (peginterferon beta-1a) Intramuscular Administration for Multiple Sclerosis

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01, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Biogen Inc. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new intramuscular (IM) injection route of administration for Plegridy ® ( peginterferon beta-1a ) for the treatment of relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis (MS). Available at: [link] Accessed: January 2021.

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FDA Approves Updated ADUHELM™ Prescribing Information to Emphasize Population Studied in Clinical Trials

The Pharma Data

ADUHELM is indicated for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. Treatment with ADUHELM should be initiated in patients with mild cognitive impairment or mild dementia stage of disease, the population in which treatment was initiated in clinical trials. ADUHELM is indicated for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease.

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Article EMA Thank You EMA’s 2023 new medicines report suggests return to pre-pandemic volume

Agency IQ

Seventeen products were orphan drugs, fourteen were generics and eight were biosimilars. This most recent year saw 80 total opinions, compared to 92 in 2022 and 97 in 2021. The rate of negative opinions over the last three years has remained relatively stable, with three each in 2023 and 2022 and five in 2021.

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Surely You Must be Kidding, PTO?!? “No, and Don’t Call Me Shirley!” – The Seemingly Slapstick (But Yet Unfunny) World of Recent Patent Term Extension Decisions (PART 2)

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

The use of a surrogate endpoint can considerably shorten the time required prior to receiving FDA approval. If the confirmatory trial shows that the drug actually provides a clinical benefit, then the FDA grants traditional approval for the drug. FDA-2022-E-3124 ). 6,992,207 covering PEPAXTO (Docket No.

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Lineage Cell Therapeutics Provides End of Year Shareholder Letter

The Pharma Data

(NYSE American and TASE: LCTX), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing allogeneic cell therapies for unmet medical needs, today provided a year-end review and an outline of its plans for 2021.