The German Medicines Manufacturers´ Association, the BAH, is calling for the country's prescription-to-OTC reclassification procedure to be simplified by removing from the process the country's Ministry of Health and Bundesrat, and empowering the medicines agency, BfArM, to make the final decision based on recommendations from the Expert Advisory Committee for Prescription.
Germany’s procedure for switching medicines from prescription-only to OTC status is “too complicated, non-transparent and unpredictable” and should be “modernized,” according to the German Medicines Manufacturers´ Association, the BAH.
At its third annual switch conference in Berlin earlier this week, the BAH’s scientific director Elmar Kroth presented a “legal...
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Proposal to have panelists rate the strength of efficacy and safety evidence on a numeric scale also draws support in written comments on ways to optimize the advisory committee process.
David Ball moves from Bayer’s North America business to be Perrigo’s first chief brand and digital officer. He joins CEO who also moved to Perrigo from Bayer with decades of branded product experience.
A draft declaration to be presented to the UN General Assembly in September suggests that a “lack of regulation of over-the-counter use of antimicrobials” is one of the “drivers of antimicrobial resistance.” Industry, however, insists that misuse and over-prescription of antibiotics are the primary drivers of AMR, and is advocating for the text to be amended accordingly.
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A pilot partnership between the FDA and Canada's Medical Devices Programme has been so successful the two agencies will talk this week about how to expand it.
Green Pharmaceuticals’ SnoreStop Nasal Spray, previously marketed as “NasoSpray,” still is available even though agency officials on multiple occasions for a month recommended a recall after an April inspection found “gross microbial contamination” in one lot.
