Boston Scientific, GSK and Johnson & Johnson have each announced billion dollar acquisitions this week with major deals designed to expand the companies’ portfolios in very specific areas. Source: Drug…
The FDA launched a new search function on its website, designed to help users search for pharmaceutical quality-related guidances, compliance programs and manuals of policies and procedures (MAPP). Source: Drug…
The Orphan Drug Act yielded 491 approvals from 1990-2022 — and 73 of these drugs are among the top 200 most profitable in the world, with global sales exceeding $1…
Suzhou Ribo Life Science and Ribocure Pharmaceuticals (Ribo) announced a $2 billion collaboration with Boehringer Ingelheim to develop novel treatments for nonalcoholic or metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (NASH/MASH). Source: Drug Industry…
The Biden Administration has signaled that it wants HHS to begin using the Defense Production Act (DPA) of 1950 to allow the government to invest in domestic manufacturing of essential…
Vaporized hydrogen peroxide (VHP) is now an established method of sterilization for medical devices, the FDA said, and can be used in place of ethylene oxide (EtO), which has been…
While the FDA has signaled concerns that drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy (semaglutide) come with an increased risk of suicidal ideation, a new study in the journal Nature says they…
How the FDA handles internal scientific disagreements and whether scientists have faced retaliation for expressing differing scientific views is the subject of a letter sent by the House Energy and…
Over the past week, the FDA issued a notice on its draft report and plan for guidance best practices. Source: Drug Industry Daily
Just days after the FTC won a temporary injunction to halt IQVIA’s proposed acquisition of Propel Media’s DeepIntent healthcare advertising business, the companies have mutually agreed to abandon the proposed…