Outlook 2024
Annual Industry Ranking And Forecast
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The CDC’s Melinda Wharton discusses how the ACIP handled COVID-19 and how the pandemic will shape the committee’s work in the future.
After several rejections by NICE and an appeal by Pfizer, the company has reduced the price for its first-in-class sickle cell disease drug to a level that the health technology assessment institute deems acceptable.
Recent Office of Prescription Drug Promotion enforcement letters provide several learnings, including the need to be aware of a product’s regulatory history and competitive landscape when developing promotions that are consistent with FDA-labeling, experts said.
House appropriations subcommittee chair Andy Harris, R-MD, says the agency ignored several important factors in recommending that marijuana be reclassified as a Schedule III drug; Califf tells ranking member Sanford Bishop, D-GA, that although work is progressing on animal testing alternatives, 'we're a long way right now' from eliminating animal studies before first-in-human trials.
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The schedule for the second round of negotiations is different from the first cycle, in part because the Inflation Reduction Act allowed for extra time initially as the program launched. The first- and second-year timelines also overlap: The second negotiation cycle will begin before the first cycle prices are implemented.
The new tool provides a way of quantifying the degree of diversity by race/ethnicity, sex and age in clinical trials, but the results will not factor into the US health technology assessment body’s cost effectiveness determinations for new drugs.
There are pending requests to add 13 candidates to the tropical diseases that qualify for a priority review voucher, according to a Pink Sheet analysis, as FDA Commissioner Robert Califf faces congressional pressure on the years since the list's last update.
A major shift from unfettered coverage to prior authorizations was recorded by MMIT over the past year for the leading GLP-1/GIP agonist diabetes drugs. Public interest in using the drugs off label for weight loss drove the change.
EMA charges participants to receive scientific advice through the fledgling program, unlike the US FDA, which may not fit the budgets of some complex generic sponsors. At the same time, sponsors also may simply not be aware the program exists yet.
Acknowledging that it may be a barrier to some extent, EMA’s senior scientific specialist of clinical pharmacology Kevin Blake notes that EU reference medicinal products are a legal requirement for bioequivalence studies and cannot be circumvented.
While EU preparations are underway to introduce strict legal requirements for all AI systems, the UK has doubled down on its flexible, non-regulatory framework. In this second of a two-part article, a lawyer explains the pros and cons of each for pharma and medtech firms.
Flexible thinking and rigorous standards will both be needed to develop psychedelics as drug therapies in order to surmount the many complicating factors, from unique ‘set and setting’ aspects to functional unblinding, speakers at Reagan-Udall Foundation meeting agree.
The talks are still tough, with the Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing proposal proving the most difficult aspect of the treaty, but there is cautious optimism that some form of agreement may be reached this week.
The FDA drug center director is encouraging manufacturers to contact the agency’s shortage surveillance team before making rash decisions during or right after an inspection.
The US FDA’s Office of Regulatory Affairs is facing challenges in retaining and hiring new staff, which will impact inspections, ORA chief Michael Rogers said.
The mechanics of implementing the new prices is the most significant update in the draft. The few revisions to key elements of the negotiation process in the guidance include alternative approaches to forums for collecting patient input on the selected drugs.
The schedule for the second round of negotiations is different from the first cycle, in part because the Inflation Reduction Act allowed for extra time initially as the program launched. The first- and second-year timelines also overlap: The second negotiation cycle will begin before the first cycle prices are implemented.
Before J&J’s former chief data scientist Najat Khan moved to Recursion, she talked to the Pink Sheet about how AI is transforming trials and driving collaboration between industry and regulators.
Pink Sheet reporter and editors discuss what an upcoming listening session means for the FDA’s advisory committee reform effort, the agency’s efforts to help clinical trial modeling and simulation, and the UK’s MHRA plan to use artificial intelligence to assist in drug reviews.
Compliance functions will be moved to the product centers when ORA becomes the Office of Inspections and Investigations, and centers will become responsible for making the final agency decision on inspection classifications, Associate Commissioner Michael Rogers said.
Developing drugs for some rare diseases is “just not commercially feasible,” meaning that alternative approaches, such as funding through venture philanthropy and not-for-profit models, need to be explored, a gene therapy professor has said.
The European Parliament has voted for a deal agreed with the council of minister to ensure polluters pay for cleaning up urban wastewater.
The Swiss agency says the aim of the agreement is to bring “high-quality, life-saving medicines to patients as quickly as possible.”
Novo Nordisk is expecting a relatively modest uptake in Medicare Part D for the cardiovascular claim, but plans still will worry about stemming demand in obesity.
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