While at least 25 accelerated approval cancer indications or drugs have been pulled or requested withdrawn since 2020, there has not yet been a similar concerted regulatory effort in the non-oncology space despite a large number of products with overdue postmarketing requirements.
In late December 2020, Bristol Myers Squibb Company announced it was withdrawing an accelerated approval indication for the PD-1 inhibitor Opdivo (nivolumuab) in third-line small cell lung cancer because two confirmatory trials failed to meet their overall survival primary endpoints.
Although it drew little publicity at the time, BMS’ announcement would be the start of a bolus of accelerated approval...
The European Medicines Agency is preparing to roll out simplified transparency rules for its Clinical Trials Information System in mid-2024. This article looks at what will change and the impact on the thousands of trials that are already in the system.
The numbers may be down, but Europeans will in future be able to gain access to a number of highly innovative medicines, including several products for hard-to-treat cancers, a gene therapy for severe and moderately severe hemophilia B, and two vaccines against disease caused by respiratory syncytial virus.
Immuno-oncology will remain a major force at both FDA’s drugs and biologics centers, but watch for psychiatry and antibiotics to make some noise; rare pediatric diseases will remain prominent as the priority review voucher program heads into the sunset.
It is unclear in a revised staff manual guide whether Commissioner's National Priority Voucher program approval “recommendations” from the drug and biologic center directors will be advisory or decisional, experts told the Pink Sheet.
Revised recommendation is based on most recent data on circulating strains in US, where KP.3 is now dominant. Novavax sticks with plans targeting the JN.1 ‘parent strain.’
Pink Sheet reporter and editors discuss the US FDA’s changes to the COVID-19 vaccine indication and its revocation of the vaccine emergency use authorizations, as well as new vaccine coverage and reimbursement questions.
