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Ninth Circuit Upholds FDA’s Authority to Regulate Stem Cell Clinic Treatments

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

California Stem Cell Treatment Center, Inc., Facts Defendants in this case are two licensed physicians and the stem cell clinics they founded. Note we do not discuss the cell expansion variety of this treatment further in this blog as the court quickly dispensed of it as obviously not subject to the SSP exception.) By Steven J.

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The Significance of the MHRA Approval and Upcoming FDA Review of the First Gene Editing Treatment

Conversations in Drug Development Trends

Casgevy, the commercial product formerly known as exa-cel, is administered by taking stem cells out of a patient’s bone marrow and editing a gene in the cells in a laboratory, with the modified cells then infused back into the patient after conditioning treatment to prepare the bone marrow. In June 2023, the U.S.

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Joint Basis for FDA/HHS Marijuana Rescheduling Recommendation Unveiled

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

Houck — In August 2023 the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) and Health and Human Services (“HHS”) recommended that the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) reschedule marijuana from schedule I under the federal Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”) to schedule III. By Larry K. 53,688 (Aug. 53,767 (Aug.

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FDA Approves Sesquient (fosphenytoin sodium) for the Treatment of Status Epilepticus in Adult and Pediatric Patients

The Pharma Data

FDA Approves Sesquient (fosphenytoin sodium) for the Treatment of Status Epilepticus in Adult and Pediatric Patients. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Sesquient (fosphenytoin sodium for injection) for the treatment of status epilepticus in adult and pediatric patients. About Sesquient.

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OTC Hearing Aids: “Nothing to See Here” Says GAO Report

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

Gibbs — It’s been over a year and a half since Over-the-Counter (“OTC”) hearing aids became legal, and it’s not clear that they’ve made the difference in hearing loss treatment that Congress anticipated. (FDA FDA once estimated that OTC hearing aids would save patients over $3000.)

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FDA Knows Its Own Strength—and It Includes Concentration

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

Karst — While the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (“BPCIA”) is inherently distinct from the Hatch-Waxman Act, many of the fundamental concepts FDA adopted as it enacted the Hatch-Waxman Act made their way into FDA’s implementation of the BPCIA. FDA borrowed this definition from 21 C.F.R.

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FDA Approves Danyelza (naxitamab-gqgk) for the Treatment of Neuroblastoma

The Pharma Data

FDA Approves Danyelza (naxitamab-gqgk) for the Treatment of Neuroblastoma. the “Company” or “Y-mAbs”) (Nasdaq: YMAB) a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of novel, antibody-based therapeutic products for the treatment of cancer, today announced that the U.S. (the