Blueprint Medicines announces PDUFA date extension for new drug application of avapritinib for the treatment of adults with fourth-line gastro-intestinal stromal tumour

6 February 2020 - PDUFA action date extended by three months to 14 May 2020. ...

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FDA delays decision on Intercept's NASH drug by three months

20 January 2020 - Action date pushed back to 26 June. ...

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FDA – 2019 in review

8 January 2020 - Analysis of NDA approval timelines for 2019. ...

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FDA’s deadline problem?

3 January 2020 - Rush to meet end-of-year drug-approval deadlines leads to more adverse effects, new study shows. ...

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Speeding access to new and innovative cancer treatments

8 December 2019 - An emerging measure for predicting cancer treatment outcomes could dramatically speed clinical trials and the approval of ...

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FDA approving drugs at breakneck speed, raising alarm

7 December 2019 - Breakthrough products beating deadlines by weeks, even months. ...

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Criticism won’t slow targeted cancer drug reviews: FDA official

18 October 2019 - FDA’s accelerated approval pathway has faced criticism it’s not really helping patients. ...

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Flexion Therapeutics announces extended FDA review of supplemental new drug application for Zilretta

14 October 2019 - Flexion Therapeutics today announced that the U.S. FDA has informed the company it needs additional time ...

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FDA announces new efforts to expedite generic drug development and marketing to improve patient access to medicines

10 July 2019 - Today, the U.S. FDA announced a draft guidance, Harmonizing Compendial Standards With Drug Application Approval Using the ...

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Should the FDA speed up or slow down approval of new cancer drugs?

21 June 2019 - Earlier this month, the FDA announced the creation of Project Facilitate.  ...

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US FDA review for Scenesse extended by three months

3 June 2019 - The FDA sets new goal date of 6 October 2019 to complete review and issue risk-benefit decision. ...

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Daiichi Sankyo provides update on ongoing FDA review for quizartinib for treatment of patients with relapsed/refractory FLT3-ITD AML

4 April 2019 - Daiichi Sankyo today announced that the U.S. FDA has extended the review period for the new ...

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Biosimilar approval and adoption in the U.S. needs to be expedited

20 March 2019 - Generic versions of brand-name small-molecule drugs saved Americans more than $1 trillion between 1999 and 2010. ...

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Karyopharm announces FDA extension of review period for selinexor new drug application

14 March 2019 - PDUFA action date extended by three months to July 6, 2019. ...

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Bavarian Nordic announces FDA delay in the review of the biologics license application for MVA-BN smallpox vaccine

11 March 2019 - Bavarian Nordic today announced that it has received information from the U.S. FDA that the review ...

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