FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

AUGUST 8, 2024

With apologies to Curtis Mayfield) By the close of the public comment period for the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (“DEA’s”) proposal to reschedule marijuana two weeks ago, the agency had received over 43,500 comments. 53,688 (Aug. 12, 2016); Denial of Petition To Initiate Proceedings to Reschedule Marijuana, 81 Fed. 53,767 (Aug.

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MARCH 25, 2024

In proposed rule, FDA offers up a (surprisingly sparse) list of drugs that present demonstrable compounding difficulties FDA yesterday released a long-awaited proposed rule on a list of drug products that present demonstrable difficulties for compounding. What is drug compounding?

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of mild to moderate COVID-19 in patients 12 years of age and older and weighing at least 40 kg, who have received positive results of direct SARS-CoV-2 viral testing and are at high risk for progressing to severe COVID-19 and/or hospitalization.

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DECEMBER 29, 2020

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in high-risk patients who have confirmed COVID-19 but are not currently hospitalized. The EUA is temporary and does not take the place of a formal biologics license application (BLA) submission review and approval process and the use of the antibody cocktail remains investigational.

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JANUARY 12, 2021

The companies share a commitment to making the antibody cocktail available to COVID-19 patients around the globe and will support access in low- and lower-middle-income countries through drug donations to be made in partnership with public health organizations. Casirivimab and imdevimab injection is not FDA approved for any use.

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

FDA accepted for priority review Libtayo ® (cemiplimab-rwlc) for both advanced non-small cell lung cancer and basal cell carcinoma. FDA approved Inmazeb for Ebola ( Zaire ebolavirus). The Company commenced delivery of REGN-COV2 drug product under the agreement during the third quarter of 2020. Oncology Program.

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 5, 2020

About the Phase 1/2 Dose-escalation Trial REGN5458 monotherapy is being investigated in an open-label, Phase 1/2 dose-escalation trial in patients with R/R multiple myeloma who are at least triple refractory to existing therapeutic options, including proteasome inhibitors, immunomodulatory drugs and CD38 antibody treatments.

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OCTOBER 28, 2020

“The first job of an antiviral therapeutic drug is to lower the viral load, and our initial data in 275 patients strongly suggested that the REGN-COV2 antibody cocktail could lower viral load and thereby potentially improve clinical outcomes. . Regeneron has shared these results with the U.S.

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Agency IQ

JANUARY 26, 2024

The cost of artificially short expiration dates: Worsened shortages, higher costs and more waste As drug shortages have made headlines over the past few years, the FDA has announced the extension of expiration dates on a variety of drug products.

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JUNE 16, 2023

Perhaps the most important addition to FDA’s agenda is a proposed rule intended to clarify that Laboratory Developed Tests (LDTs) are to be regulated as medical devices under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act). Read our analysis of that rule here and here. ]

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NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA grants Emergency Use Authorization to medicines that may help diagnose, treat or prevent a life-threatening disease when adequate and approved alternatives are not available. Casirivimab and imdevimab injection is not FDA approved for any use.

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Agency IQ

DECEMBER 1, 2023

December also has a huge number of legislative deadlines associated with the Food and Drug Omnibus Reform Act of 2022. Drug Importation: We may soon receive greater clarity about the FDA’s thinking about prescription drug importation plans.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Many of those activities are tied to various user fee program commitments; a few others are related to other major pieces of legislation like last year’s Food and Drug Omnibus Reform Act (FDORA). AgencyIQ October 1 Nitrosamine testing due to FDA.

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

December has a huge number of legislative deadlines associated with the Food and Drug Omnibus Reform Act of 2022. Drug Importation: We may start the month of November with greater clarity about the FDA’s thinking about prescription drug importation plans.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA grants Emergency Use Authorization to medicines that may help diagnose, treat or prevent a life-threatening disease when adequate and approved alternatives are not available. Casirivimab and imdevimab injection is not FDA approved for any use.

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Inmazeb (atoltivimab, maftivimab and odesivimab-ebgn) for the treatment of infection caused by Zaire ebolavirus in adult and pediatric patients, including newborns of mothers who have tested positive for the infection. DRUG INTERACTIONS. TARRYTOWN, N.Y., 5 x ULN).

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Policy Prescription

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Salant’s paper supports personal drug importation and legalizing the importation of prescription drugs for commercial use so that wholesale pharmacies, including companies like Amazon and Costco, could tap into the parallel importation markets of other countries. First, drug prices in the U.S. He points to “a mere 1.5%

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Drug & Device Law

MAY 19, 2023

Over the past few months, Bexis, with the substantial help of several Reed Smith associates, has prepared a law review article – “Federal Preemption and the Post- Dobbs Reproductive Freedom Frontier” – which will soon be published in the Food & Drug Law Journal. A draft of this article is now available on SSRN. In GenBioPro, Inc.

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Drug & Device Law

DECEMBER 29, 2023

2023) (HHS cannot force pharmaceutical manufacturers to sell unlimited amounts of prescription drugs at a discount) ( here ). This year’s Drug & Device Law Blog top ten decisions of the year reinforced preemption – the most powerful defense we can assert. United States Department of Health and Human Services , 58 F.4th 4th 696 (3d.

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JUNE 2, 2022

Even with some attempt to “stay in our lane,” we can see significant impacts on the legal framework in which a number of medical product manufacturers, to say nothing of distributors, pharmacies, and healthcare providers, operate. This is not a matter of us injecting our personal and political views into areas we do not belong.

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JANUARY 4, 2024

The Complaint further alleges that data collected and submitted in support of full (as opposed to emergency use) FDA approval demonstrated the misleading nature of earlier statements. The FDA, however, did not and does not share that belief. FDA (8/23/21) press release (emphasis original). Health & Safety C.

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MAY 26, 2023

In that case, the Fourth Circuit knocked out a Maryland law designed to prevent price gouging on drugs because of its extraterritorial reach. 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.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2023

But in prescription medical product liability litigation, products must receive FDA approval, clearance or other authorization (hereafter, collectively referred to as “approval” for short) before they can be marketed. In Bruesewitz v. Wyeth LLC , 562 U.S. at 237-38. Wyeth Laboratories, Inc. , 2d 397 (6th Cir. 2d at 401.

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