Statement from FDA Commissioner and Director of FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research on efforts to modernise generic drug labels while maintaining the efficiency of generic development

13 December 2018 - Protecting patient safety is at the core of the FDA’s mission. All FDA-approved drugs have benefits and ...

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Statement from FDA Commissioner on new actions advancing the agency’s biosimilars policy framework

11 December 2018 - Our public health obligations touch on many aspects of how medical products are developed and used ...

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Statement from FDA Commissioner on FDA’s new strategic framework to advance use of real-world evidence to support development of drugs and biologics

6 December 2018 - The health care system is integrating more effective ways to leverage electronic tools to gather and use ...

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Statement from FDA Commissioner on the FDA’s new effort for developing and class labelling of in vitro companion diagnostics for classes of oncology therapeutic products

6 December 2018 - One challenge we face right now, when it comes to developing diagnostics that can help target ...

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FDA publishes post CRL guidance for generic companies

4 December 2018 - The US FDA has published final guidance for the generics industry on post-complete response letter meetings. ...

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No matter what the FDA decides, new diabetes drugs will still require CV outcomes trials

6 November 2018 - At one time, Avandia (generic name: rosiglitazone) was a major diabetes drug for GSK with sales exceeding ...

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Advancing toward the goal of global approval for generic drugs: FDA proposes critical first steps to harmonise the global scientific and technical standards for generic drugs

18 October 2018 - Too many Americans struggle with the high cost of drugs. In some cases, patients go without ...

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FDA guides on minimal residual disease endpoint in haematologic cancer trials

16 October 2018 - FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb highlighted minimal residual disease's potential as a surrogate endpoint in clinical trials ...

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FDA issues 54 product-specific guidances to promote generic drug access and drug price competition

13 September 2018 - The U.S. FDA today announced a new set of product-specific guidances to support industry in identifying ...

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Statement by FDA Commissioner on new steps to advance the development of evidence-based, indication-specific guidelines to help guide appropriate prescribing of opioid analgesics

22 August 2018 - As we all work to confront the staggering human and economic toll created by the opioid crisis, ...

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Statement from FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb on new steps the agency is taking to support the development of novel nicotine replacement drug therapies to help smokers quit cigarettes

3 August 2018 - As a public health agency, there is no greater impact we can have to improve the ...

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Scientist invented a new pathway to approve biosimilars, and the FDA is listening

25 July 2018 - In an extraordinary move, the FDA has withdrawn the draft guidance, "Statistical Approaches to Evaluate Analytical Similarity,” ...

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Statement from FDA Commissioner on agency’s efforts to encourage the development of and broaden access to generic versions of opioid analgesics that are formulated to deter abuse

20 July 2018 - One of the ways that the U.S. FDA is working to address the opioid epidemic is ...

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FDA provides scientific and regulatory clarity for generic drug developers through the issuance of 43 new or revised product-specific guidance documents, including hard-to-copy complex generics and abuse-deterrent formulations of opioids

20 July 2018 - The U.S. FDA today announced a new batch of product-specific guidances to support industry in identifying ...

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Statement from FDA Commissioner on agency’s efforts to advance development of gene therapies

11 July 2018 - Once just a theory, gene therapies are now a therapeutic reality for some patients.  ...

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