World of DTC Marketing
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
Experts across the board are predicting demand for antiviral drugs will rapidly outpace supply. Pfizer and Merck have chosen to designate a select few generic manufacturers to produce cheaper versions of their drugs through the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP). Reportedly, the cost of production for molnupiravir stands at about $17.74.
Pharma in Brief
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
On January 26, 2024, Health Canada published a Notice concerning its application of the definition of Canadian Reference Product ( CRP ) in the Food and Drug Regulations ( Regulations ). For instance, the generic drug must be “the pharmaceutical equivalent of the [CRP]” and be “bioequivalent with the [CRP]”.
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Camargo
NOVEMBER 11, 2020
When the FDA requires a product’s labeling to include a boxed warning (also called a “black box warning” because the text is surrounded by black border), the potential market value of the drug often drops severely. Presumably, Antares’ long-established 90-person urology sales force can achieve pull-thru of this drug product.
Pharmaceutical Technology
OCTOBER 28, 2022
To demonstrate bioequivalence for a generic small molecule drug, a company must carry out a Phase I clinical trial in healthy individuals to ensure that the area under the curve and maximum plasma concentration for their drug is equivalent to that of the brand name drug.
FDA Law Blog
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Relevant here, FDA interpreted in Guidance that a proposed injectable biosimilar must “demonstrate that its product has the same strength as the reference product by demonstrating that both products have the same total content of drug substance (in mass or units of activity) and the same concentration of drug substance.”
Camargo
DECEMBER 13, 2021
Both the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) and its Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) have regulatory responsibility for therapeutic biological products, which are subject to both the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic (FD & C) Act and the Public Health Service (PHS) Act. BLA process (CBER).
FDA Law Blog
JULY 6, 2021
Koblitz — FDA has long taken the position that a Complete Response Letter (“CRL”)—a letter sent when FDA has determined that it “cannot approve” a New Drug Application (“NDA”) or an Abbreviated New Drug Application (“ANDA”) “in its present form”—is not a final agency action and thereby not subject to challenge in Court. 314.110(c).
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