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FDA Sort-of Commits to Meet with Generic Drug Manufacturers that Have Received Warning Letters

FDA Law Blog

Farquhar — A drug manufacturer’s bad post-inspection grade from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration – labeled an “Official Action Indicated” classification – is generally devastating for the facility, not least because it can stall FDA approval of applications to market drugs manufactured at the facility.

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FDA Denies Vanda’s Citizen Petitions Regarding the Need for Braille Labeling for Tasimelteon Generics

FDA Law Blog

Vanda requested that FDA revoke the approval of Apotex’s and Teva’s generic versions of Hetlioz on the grounds that the generic tasimelteon products did not meet the statutory “same labeling” requirement for generic drugs found in 21 U.S.C. § FDA regulations, at 21 C.F.R. 355(j)(2)(A)(v).

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Drug labeling authority, UDI program reviewed by Harvard-based researchers

The Pharma Data

These initiatives could support insurance coverage of previously off-label uses, prevent costly new drugs from inappropriately receiving preferential regulatory treatment that is intended for drugs with no FDA-approved alternatives, and better inform clinicians by providing evidence-based information about how drugs should be used,” they noted. .

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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.

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

XTalks

Comirnaty was first approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in August 2021 for individuals over the age of 16. 2) Paxlovid (nirmatrelvir/ritonavir) Paxlovid is a dual-packaged oral medication for the treatment of COVID-19. The FDA approved the drug over a decade ago in September 2009.

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Through the Looking Glass: Is FDA really the “Gold Standard” in Drug Safety?

Pharmacy Checkers

Testimony this week by the Government Accountability Office before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations about the FDA’s potential failures to protect the public health may not take you into such a totally lopsided universe, but it shows that things may not be so golden. For a longer report about the U.S

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Comments on Notice of Proposed Rulemaking titled “Importation of Prescription Drugs, FDA-2019-N-5711, 84 Fed. Reg. 70796”

Pharmacy Checkers

The FDA should be commended for its effort to create rules, pursuant to Section 804 of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, that can lead to a regulated and safe channel of wholesale drug importation from Canada to help reduce cost burdens on states and consumers. counterparts. Part J is written in three sections.