In two separate Federal Register (FR) notices today, the FDA announced a public hearing (here) to be held on September 17, 2019. The notice states: This public hearing is intended to receive stakeholder input on the approval process for new opioids and how FDA might best consider the existing armamentarium of therapies, among other factors, […]
The pre-publication page of the Federal Register Notice posted today (here) a reopening of the comment period for the draft guidance Quality Considerations for Continuous Manufacturing which was originally released February 27, 2019. That guidance can be found here . While some (but not too many) firms have embraced the concept of continuous manufacturing, others […]
In today’s prepublication of the Federal Register Notice entitled Fixed-Quantity Unit-of-Use Blister Packaging for Certain Immediate-Release Opioid Analgesics for Treatment of Acute Pain (here), the Agency is opening a docket to receive comments on a requirement to blister package certain commonly prescribed opioid products in an effort to reduce the potential for over dispensing quantities […]
The list, published by the Office of Management and Budget, outlines a host of proposed and/or final rules the FDA “hopes” to publish, or at least consider, in 2019. Given the state of and the bent towards new or additional regulations in the current administration, this seems like an ambitious agenda for the Agency. The […]
From the news stories on the price fixing suits, to the reported revelations about quality in the generic drug industry, or to the publication of a book titled “Bottle of Lies”, it has not been a good start to the news cycle for the generic drug industry this week. The report on price fixing was […]
Today, FDA finalized a guidance document (initially issued in draft in October 2017)that discusses how to best determine if your proposed product should be submitted as an ANDA (505(j)) or an NDA (505(b)(2)). We first blogged about this here. The selection of the type of application to submit has been a source of discussion ever […]
The FDA released a draft guidance today titled Submitting Documents Using Real-World Data and Real‑World Evidence to FDA for Drugs and Biologics (here) that describes how the Agency will receive Real World Data (RWD) and Real World Evidence (RWE) and the potential use of each. After reading the draft guidance, it seems to me that […]
In the Federal Register (FR) pre-publication page (here) today, FDA announced a proposed study to evaluate patient/consumer ability to understand the impact of Direct to Consumer (DTC) advertising for products with accelerated approvals. These products are typically approved based on a surrogate endpoint (such as a blood test) that has a reasonable likelihood to predict […]
FDA notes that it “identified 62 cases of complex sleep behaviors that resulted in serious injuries or death after taking insomnia medicines eszopiclone, zaleplon, or zolpidem reported in the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) database between December 16, 1992, and February 27, 2018, and four additional cases reported in the medical literature1-5 between December […]
Well, for us old folks, change is always something that makes us queasy. The newly-designed FDA website stirred those feeling all over again as we try to navigate the new links and find the information that was once at our fingertips (or at least in our bookmarks). There were some wrong turns and some dead […]
