Pink Sheet reporter and editors discuss the take-aways from the landmark first Medicare negotiated drug prices and what additional information remains outstanding.
Pink Sheet reporter and editors discuss former Surgeon General Jerome Adams’ views on how the FDA can better ensure clinical trial diversity, questions about approving a new drug that would be used with a standard of care regimen that is off-label, and the agency beginning to schedule fully in-person advisory committee meetings.
Pink Sheet reporter and editors discuss the US FDA drug approval decisions that could arrive in August, a trial design issue that could ensnare BMS’ Opdivo along with AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi, and the EMA potentially asking all sponsors to provide raw clinical data as part of application reviews.
Editors from the Pink Sheet and Medtech Insight discuss the retirement of Jeff Shuren, PBM executives again appear unscathed after another Capitol Hill appearance, and the growing push to ensure the FDA’s rare pediatric disease priority review voucher program is renewed.
Pink Sheet reporter and editors discuss the impact of a US and EU drug approvals analysis that found the US FDA still clears many novel products first, including most new cell and gene therapies and cancer treatments.
Pink Sheet reporter and editors discuss what the FDA included in its long-awaited guidance on clinical trial diversity action plans, along with what was left out, as well as an upcoming guidance on the use of artificial intelligence in regulatory decision-making.
Pink Sheet editors discuss the US FDA’s potential regulatory changes to promote novel trial designs, an NIH proposal to better ensure access to a commercialized product, and lawmakers longing for Janet Woodcock's days running the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.
Pink Sheet editors and reporter consider the implications of the BIOSECURE Act as it advances through a House committee, whether industry would improve clinical trial diversity with tougher enforcement of the regulation, as some have suggested, and the FDA’s use of platform technology ideas for gene therapies not participating in the program.
