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In the News: October Regulatory and Development Updates

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Unpacking the (Black) Box: Antares Licenses Urology Product with Boxed Warning. 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.

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Update: FDA clears first generic of AZ’s blockbuster Symbicort

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Viatris (formerly Mylan) has become the first drugmaker to win full FDA approval for a generic version of AstraZeneca’s top-selling respiratory drug Symbicort, although launch plans remain uncertain for now. Generics of Symbicort are already available in some non-US markets, including in Europe.

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Can you trust Turkey-approved Alipza? Is it the same as U.S.-Approved Livalo?

Pharmacy Checkers

This post is mostly a story about a very well manufactured, safe and effective, foreign version of an FDA-approved drug. These drugs are normally far less expensive than the FDA-approved version sold in the U.S. That word “same” is hard to answer when it comes to prescription drugs. Is it counterfeit?

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FDA Knows Its Own Strength—and It Includes Concentration

FDA Law Blog

As FDA explains, Boehringer’s request would allow its “Cyltezo (adalimumab-adbm) injection, which contains the same total content of drug substance and same concentration as Original Concentration Humira (e.g., mg/mL) for liquid parenteral drug products. mL) in addition to Original Concentration Humira.”

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Surely You Must be Kidding, PTO?!? “No, and Don’t Call Me Shirley!” – The Seemingly Slapstick (But Yet Unfunny) World of Recent Patent Term Extension Decisions (PART 3. and PART 3½)

FDA Law Blog

4,631,286, where the PTO considered “whether Hoechst-Roussel is eligible to file an application for [PTE] based on a regulatory review conducted by its competitor, the marketing applicant Warner-Lambert, wherein Hoechst-Roussel was not associated with the regulatory review that led to FDA approval for commercial marketing of the approved product.”

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Top 30 Pharma and Biotech Companies in 2023: Statistics and Trends

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Paxlovid was first authorized under the FDA Emergency Use Authorization in December 2021 ; however, it has received FDA approval on May 25, 2023. pneumoniae serotypes) replaced the company’s first pneumococcal conjugate vaccine Prevnar (PCV7, approved by the FDA in February 2000) in a February 2010 FDA approval.

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Here It Goes, Here It Goes, Here It Goes Again: The Build Back Better Act (Redux)

FDA Law Blog

If that biosimilar has not been licensed or marketed within 1 year, the product may be eligible for a second year of delay if there remains a high likelihood of licensure and a significant amount of progress toward both licensure and marketing has been made since the receipt of initial request.