FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Gaulkin — In May 2023, we posted about a CMS proposed regulation that sought to make a wide variety of changes to the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program (MDRP), including a new “price verification survey,” and a controversial proposal to require “stacking” of discounts to different customers when determining best price.

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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. The result was the addition of Section 503A to the FD&C Act.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

What We Expect the FDA to do in October 2023 In this ongoing feature, AgencyIQ looks at public data to determine what the FDA is likely to do in the month ahead, including key deadlines, meetings, events, planned regulations, comment periods and more.

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

What We Expect the FDA to do in November 2023 In this ongoing feature, AgencyIQ looks at public data to determine what the FDA is likely to do in the month ahead, including key deadlines, meetings, events, planned regulations, comment periods and more.

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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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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

We are pleased to submit these extended stability conditions for mRNA-1273 to regulators for approval. The stability at refrigerated conditions allows for storage at most pharmacies, hospitals, or physicians’ offices. MRNA-1273 (SARS-CoV-2 vaccine) FDA Approval History. Source: Moderna, Inc. . Source link.

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JANUARY 4, 2024

For regulators, there are two primary concerns associated with impurities – that they may cause a drug substance to degrade (thereby reducing its efficacy or safety) and that the impurities (or their effects on the drug substance) may be harmful to patients. Read AgencyIQ’s analysis of the ICH guideline here ].

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 24, 2021

The Company owns 80% of Pharmadrug GmbH, a German medical cannabis distributor, with a Schedule I European Union narcotics license and German EuGMP certification allowing for the importation and distribution of medical cannabis to pharmacies in Germany and throughout the EU.

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Agency IQ

OCTOBER 20, 2023

” Interchangeable products can be substituted for the reference product at the pharmacy level, without prescriber intervention, within state and local regulations. By contrast, a biosimilar product is only “highly similar to and has no clinically meaningful differences in terms of safety, purity, and potency.”

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

BY AMANDA CONTI SEP 13, 2023 1:58 PM CDT Quick background on nonprescription drug regulation Nonprescription drugs, also known as over-the-counter (OTC) drugs, are regulated differently than traditional prescription drugs. The FDA will follow these procedures for both agency-initiated operations (e.g.,

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The Pharma Data

MAY 13, 2021

I Have A Doctorate In Pharmacy, But Everything I Learned About Pain Relief In Pharmacy School Is Dead Wrong! Which is how I got into pharmacy — after all, what better way to spend your life than by removing illness from the world. . … And then got my Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

What We Expect the FDA to do in December 2023 In this ongoing feature, AgencyIQ looks at public data to determine what the FDA is likely to do in the month ahead, including key deadlines, meetings, events, planned regulations, comment periods and more.

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MAY 7, 2021

Adcomm splits slightly in favor of FDA approving ChemoCentryx’s rare disease drug ( Endpoints ). WHO approves emergency use of China’s Sinopharm Covid vaccine ( FT ). AZ’ Tagrisso first to win MHRA approval under Project Orbis ( PharmaTimes ) ( Pink Sheet ) ( MHRA ).

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JUNE 17, 2024

As reported by POLITICO , “The decision — if allowed by the Supreme Court to take effect — would roll back actions the federal government has taken since 2016 to make the pills more accessible, including rules allowing online ordering, mail delivery, and pharmacy dispensing of the drugs. They were not purchasing mifepristone.

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DECEMBER 14, 2022

Pharmacy manual. Approval letter from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), including investigational device exemption (IDE) devices. FDA-approved IDE devices may be deemed qualifying under the Medicare Benefit Policy Manual, Chapter 14. Optional Documents. Clinical trial agreement. Lab manual.

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Drug & Device Law

MAY 19, 2023

The core premise of Bexis’ article is very simple: Once the FDA has said “yes” and approved a particular drug for a particular indication (“intended use”) for sale in the United States, federal preemption precludes any state from saying say “no” and trying to ban that same FDA-approved drug. In GenBioPro, Inc.

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Drug & Device Law

MAY 26, 2023

We are not looking do either of those, but we will weigh in on what NPP means for non-product liability cases involving FDA-regulated medical products. A state cannot regulate commerce occurring wholly outside its borders. The most prominent litigation in this space these days relates to reproductive rights. Ogden , 22 U.S.

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Drug & Device Law

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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Drug & Device Law

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The plaintiff failed to identify any method by which a generic (or any other) drug manufacturer could add a Prop 65 warning without deviating from FDA-approved labeling, thereby violating federal law. That meant both the pharmacist and the pharmacy where the vaccine was administered “covered persons” under the act.

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Drug & Device Law

JANUARY 4, 2024

That Complaint alleges various antivax conspiracy theories concerning COVID-19 vaccines, the FDA, emergency use authorizations, and the media that have circulated since these vaccines first became available. The FDA, however, did not and does not share that belief. FDA (8/23/21) press release (emphasis original). & Com.

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Drug & Device Law

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. to determine whether a proposed alternative drug would have received FDA approval.” at 237-38.

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Drug & Device Law

MAY 10, 2023

It is simply unworkable, even nonsensical, to permit the states to impose varying, contradictory requirements on FDA-approved products. New Jersey CVS Pharmacy, LLC, 2023 WL 3249820 (D.N.J The plaintiff initially filed the complaint against only the pharmacy where the decedent allegedly purchased the medicine.

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JUNE 29, 2022

The FDA approved the plaintiff’s 5 mg solution, and the only other FDA approved ephedrine solutions came in the 50 mg concentration. It was not FDA approved. The Nexus court held that the Minnesota Pharmacy Act, which formed the basis of the plaintiff’s lawsuit, was inapplicable.

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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.” That’s the FDA’s job, not the court’s. Finding non-disclosure different than, for example, a claim premised on false assertions of FDA approval. Nidek Co. ,

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