The breakthrough therapy designation (BTD), once awarded to a drug product under development, triggers a rather intensive use of Agency resources, such as providing “early and frequent advice, conduct multidisciplinary meetings involving senior managers, and when appropriate, expedite the review of resultant marketing applications.” The program is designed to “facilitate and expedite” review of promising […]
The FDA has issued a proposed rule (here) to expand certain new conditions of use for OTC products. When an OTC product is approved through an NDA, it should have all of the necessary information in the Drug Facts section of the label so the consumer can properly select whether the product is appropriate for […]
The FDA recently published an updated version of the Current List of Off-Patent, Off-Exclusivity Drugs without an Approved Generic (here). The list is broken down into two parts that identify either prescription or over‑the‑counter drugs (that require an ANDA as the subject of approval), and each of these respective lists is broken down into two […]
The focus on beta‑lactam antibiotics has primarily concentrated on penicillin and its derivatives because of the issue of severe allergy or anaphylaxis that can occur in individuals with sensitivities to these products. Over the years, as more and more non‑beta‑lactam antibiotics were introduced to the market, there has also been growing concern that these new […]
Well, just like that, OGD posted the official approval actions along with some other metrics for May and also updated the rest of the April statistics. We have been touting the May approval action and we were ever-so-close but missed by one. The actual official May approval actions are as follows: Full approval actions 84 […]
There is no question that the Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm has stirred up a lot of controversary. The action that CMS took related to reimbursement for the drug for Medicare patients and the initial yearly projected cost soured many stakeholders on the product, from prescribers to patients, as well as caregivers and healthcare providers, not to […]
June looks fairly strong but likely not as strong as May’s projected unofficial total (ninety‑three full and tentative actions). With postings through June 14th on the FDA’s Daily and All Approval lists (here and here), as of 10:30 a.m. on June 16, 2022, there were twenty‑three full‑approval actions and nine tentative‑approval actions. This total of […]
It appears that the tentative approvals for both May and June began appearing in force on the FDA’s All Approvals list and in the daily approval postings sometime this week. With that in mind, I want to update the unofficial approval action totals for May 2022, which we first reported here. The All Approvals report […]
The FDA has updated its list of all ANDA final approvals for drug products that have received CGT designation. The list cites a total of 150 ANDAs and the first approval under the program dates back to August 8, 2018. So far in 2022, FDA has approved 29 such ANDAs, of which 10 have commenced […]
The FDA’s Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee will be considering the addition of four new ingredients for use for inclusion on the bulk list for 503A compounders to utilize in the compounding of prescription drug products. The four ingredients up for consideration are: Ammonium tetrathiomolybdate; Enclomiphene citrate; Ferric subsulfate; and Glutathione The Notice for the Advisory […]
