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U.S. FDA Extends Review of Pfizer’s New Drug Application for PAXLOVID™

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FDA Extends Review of Pfizer’s New Drug Application for PAXLOVID™. FDA Extends Review of Pfizer’s New Drug Application for PAXLOVID™. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has extended the review period for the New Drug Application (NDA) for its COVID-19 oral treatment, PAXLOVID™ (nirmatrelvir tablets and ritonavir tablets).

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Separating the Hype from the Hyperbole Surrounding FDORA’s Alternatives to Animal Testing under the FD&C Act

FDA Law Blog

Since 1962, the FD&C Act has authorized FDA to require that sponsors of clinical trials submit data from “preclinical tests (including tests on animals)” in order to demonstrate that their drug is safe enough to advance to testing in humans. Tobolowsky & Charles G. FDORA § 3209(a)(1). FDORA § 3209(a)(2). 42 U.S.C. § 42 U.S.C. §

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Pfizer to Provide U.S. Government with an Additional 3.7 Million Treatment Courses of PAXLOVID™ to Help Combat COVID-19

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In June of 2022, Pfizer submitted a New Drug Application (NDA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for approval of PAXLOVID for patients who are at high risk of progression to severe disease from COVID-19. The target Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) action date for a decision by the FDA is in February 2023.

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Considerations for Mobile Health Technology Developers: Part 1

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Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation as a medical device. In Part 1 of this series, general wellness devices and mobile medical applications (MMAs) will be considered. Part 2 of this series will be devoted to clinical decision support (CDS) software. The FDA’s General Approach to Regulating mHealth Products.

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Statement from Pfizer Chairman and CEO Albert Bourla on Testing Positive for COVID-19

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Nirmatrelvir has shown consistent in vitro antiviral activity against the following variants: Alpha, Beta, Delta, Gamma, Lambda, Mu, and Omicron BA.1 I am grateful to have received four doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and I am feeling well while experiencing very mild symptoms. FDA Emergency Use Authorization Statement. AUTHORIZED USE.

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Pfizer Signs Agreement to Provide the European Union with PAXLOVID™

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(NYSE: PFE) today announced an agreement with the European Commission (EC) to supply its COVID-19 oral therapy, PAXLOVID™ (nirmatrelvir [PF-07321332] tablets and ritonavir tablets) to countries participating in the Joint Procurement Agreement across Europe. This agreement will supply participating countries up to 3.4

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A Question 30 Years in the Making: Would a Final LDT Rule Withstand Judicial Scrutiny?

FDA Law Blog

Gibbs — For more than three decades, FDA has claimed that the Federal Food, Drug & Cosmetic (FD&C Act) gives the agency legal authority to regulate laboratory developed tests (LDTs) as medical devices (see our prior post here ).