FDA announces draft guidances to help increase transparency, assist reporting and timely completion for certain medical device studies after FDA approval or clearance

26 May 2021 - Today, the U.S. FDA issued two guidances regarding the surveillance of certain medical devices. ...

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President Biden still hasn’t appointed a permanent FDA commissioner. That has big implications for upcoming drug approvals.

25 May 2021 - Within the next few weeks, the FDA is set to make an extraordinary decision: whether or not ...

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Adjusting for covariates in randomised clinical trials for drugs and biological products

20 May 2021 - This guidance represents FDA’s current thinking on adjusting for covariates in the statistical analysis of randomised clinical ...

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Omeros announces extension of FDA review period for narsoplimab in HSCT-TMA

20 May 2021 - PDUFA date is 17 October 2021. ...

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FDA authorises longer time for refrigerator storage of thawed Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine prior to dilution, making vaccine more widely available

19 May 2021 - Based on a review of recent data submitted by Pfizer today, the U.S. FDA is authorising undiluted, ...

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Leading real world data and analytics organisations form industry coalition to advance policies to support regulatory use of real world evidence

19 May 2021 - RWE Alliance Launched by Aetion, Flatiron Health, IQVIA, Syapse, and Tempus. ...

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FDA: flexibility okay for gaps in gene therapy trials

18 May 2021 - The US FDA is not amenable to changing study outcome measures or sample sizes for gene therapy ...

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COVID-19 vaccines: In the rush for regulatory approval, do we need more data?

18 May 2021 - After rollout under emergency authorisation, manufacturers of COVID-19 vaccines now have their sights on regulatory approval.  ...

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Statement on leronlimab

17 May 2021 - FDA recognizes the substantial public interest in medicines that are being studied for the prevention or treatment ...

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AstraZeneca weighs seeking full U.S. approval for COVID-19 shot, skipping emergency use application

7 May 2021 - British drugmaker faces challenges gathering data; may wait to apply for full approval by the FDA, which ...

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How the FDA’s ‘master plan’ will affect NIH funding for digital medicine projects

3 May 2021 - The term B.C. took on a new meaning — Before COVID — last year when almost ...

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ALS groups to the FDA and drug sponsors: ‘We won’t be played again’

30 April 2021 - Working to improve the fight for therapies for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as Lou ...

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FDA scraps another last-minute Trump-era policy

30 April 2021 - The US FDA on Friday revoked a policy issued in the final days of the Trump ...

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AstraZeneca struggles with data needed for COVID-19 vaccine’s approval

29 April 2021 - Company is assembling data for FDA review, hoping for another stamp of regulatory backing in global rollout ...

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FDA Advisory Committee votes in favour of maintaining accelerated approval of Genentech’s Tecentriq for previously untreated metastatic bladder cancer

28 April 2021 - Genentech today announced the U.S. FDA Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee voted 10 to 1 in favour of ...

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