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Mark Cuban’s Pharmacy Dreams Are Generic

Policy Prescription

Mark Cuban’s new online pharmacy venture – the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company (“Cost Plus Drug”) – will not help overcome the biggest obstacle to drug affordability in America, which is drug company monopolies on patented brand name prescription drugs. That’s even cheaper than foreign online pharmacy prices , including in India. .

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FDA approves first interchangeable biosimilar insulin product for treatment of diabetes

The Pharma Data

The substitution may occur at the pharmacy, a practice commonly called “pharmacy-level substitution” – much like how generic drugs are substituted for brand name drugs, subject to state pharmacy laws, which vary by state. Biosimilars marketed in the U.S. More than 34 million people in the U.S.

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FDA Approves Zokinvy (lonafarnib) for Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome and Processing-Deficient Progeroid Laminopathies

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FDA Approves Zokinvy (lonafarnib) for Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome and Processing-Deficient Progeroid Laminopathies. Zokinvy for the treatment of Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS or Progeria) and processing-deficient Progeroid Laminopathies is the Company’s first FDA approval. PALO ALTO, Calif.,

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Recon: FDA approves Heron’s non-opioid anesthetic; Poll suggests low public trust in US health insti

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‘More Amazon and less pharmacy’: one exec on the company’s strategy for prescription drugs ( STAT ). ICER, Accelerated Approval And The Payer Voice At The US FDA ( Pink Sheet ). ‘Imminent’ Generic Approvals Expected To Help US FDA Meet On-Time Review Metric Retroactively ( Pink Sheet ).

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The Wholesaling Prohibition (Potentially) Demystified? FDA’s Take on Supply Chains for Section 503B Outsourcing Facilities

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

As a reminder, in Title I of the 2013 Drug Quality and Security Act (DQSA) (the Compounding Quality Act), Congress created the “outsourcing facility” FDA registration category, and set forth statutory parameters for their operation in new section 503B of the FDCA. See 21 U.S.C. Section II at 2. Draft Guidance III.B.2(e)

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Recon: Pfizer, BioNTech submit BLA for COVID vaccine; MHRA approves first drug under Project Orbis

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Adcomm splits slightly in favor of FDA approving ChemoCentryx’s rare disease drug ( Endpoints ). Massachusetts sues Publicis for designing ‘marketing schemes’ to boost OxyContin sales ( STAT ). WHO approves emergency use of China’s Sinopharm Covid vaccine ( FT ). What happens now?

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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 CHPA presenters described “issues and misconceptions” with the FDA analysis. billion, compared with retail sales of $0.5

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