In its simplest form, strategy can be considered bringing a new product to market, but it touches every product development lifecycle aspect and can ensure market sustainability. A limited or inadequate strategy can challenge global expansion, thus emphasizing the importance of a well-designed and executed regulatory strategy. This article identifies the requirements for developing a strategy for a drug development plan, as well as postmarketing strategy, with some global ...

A weekly update on new drug approvals and indications from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). New approvals Tarpeyo approved for reducing proteinuria in IgA nephropathy Calliditas Therapeutics’ Tarpeyo (budesonide) delayed release capsules were granted accelerated approval to reduce proteinuria in adults with primary immunoglobulin A (IgA) nephropathy, also known as Berger’s disease, who are at risk of rapid disease progression. Approval of Tarpeyo wa...

Welcome to Regulatory Reconnaissance, your daily regulatory news and intelligence briefing.   In Focus: US More than 1 million Americans were diagnosed with COVID over the long holiday weekend ( NPR ) ( Reuters ) Elizabeth Holmes is found guilty of four counts of fraud ( NYT ) ( POLITICO ) The Epic Rise and Fall of Elizabeth Holmes ( NYT ) Pfizer carries pandemic momentum into 2022, scoring another huge Paxlovid deal with the US ( Fierce ) CDER, CBER Approve Total...

Welcome to 2021’s last issue of This Week at FDA. This week saw a year-end flurry of device classifications; we are also sharing news of three noteworthy device warning letters and a citizen petition response that closes with FDA’s referring a firm to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for anticompetitive practices.    RAPS offices are closed 23 December – 2 January. Regulatory Focus will resume publication on 3 January. From our team to you, our valued readers, best...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is modifying the shared Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) for mifepristone products to allow women to continue to access the abortion medication through the mail via a certified prescriber.   The move, highlighted on FDA’s mifepristone information webpage and in updates to an associated question-and-answer (Q&A) page on 16 December, makes permanent the eased restrictions permitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. At...

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) recently released a report that reflected on a decade of implementing a framework to better work with doctors, pharmacists, and nurses in the EU.   As of December 2021, there are now 38 eligible organizations working with the agency in a variety of practice areas. The framework is designed for EMA to access a network of independent experts in clinical practice who can advise on real-world experience with drug development, benefit-ris...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently released two draft guidances: one with advice for sponsors on the development of drugs for the treatment of chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP), and another offering efficacy and safety considerations for the development of bowel cleansing products for colonoscopy.     Guidance on CRSwNP drugs   The agency provided recommendations for sponsors involved in a CRSwNP drug’s development, including d...

  Welcome to Regulatory Reconnaissance, your daily regulatory news and intelligence briefing.   In Focus: US Former FDA commissioners endorse Califf as head of agency, citing urgency of addressing omicron ( WaPo ) Califf goes to Congress ( POLITICO ) Moderna, Amgen among biotech heavyweights pulling out of JPM conference over Covid concerns ( STAT ) US FDA’s Woodcock Sees Clinical Trial Reform Coming, But ‘Not Wholly Optimistic’ ( Pink Sheet ) Pfizer says its Co...

Happy Friday – this week we’re juggling lots of end-of-year activity from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Today and in the next week, look for our contributors to highlight several draft and final guidance documents and to provide analysis and background on industry’s reactions to other guidances whose comment periods have recently closed.   The Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) released its fall/winter 2021 regulatory science news update today....

A commission ordered by the EC Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE) to conduct a study on medicine shortages in the EU and European Economic Area (EEA) has released a final report outlining the problem and its recommendations for stakeholders.   Documenting the scope of human medicine shortages in EU/EEA countries between 2004 and 2020, the study conducted by Technopolis Group, Milieu Law & Policy Consulting and Ecorys analyzed data from 22 differe...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued draft guidance to industry on how real-world data (RWD) could be used in clinical trials and how it could be incorporated into the design of non-interventional studies.   The draft guidance , released Thursday, outlines the applicability of FDA’s investigational new drug application (IND) regulations to clinical study designs that use RWD and clarifies the agency’s expectations on new drug applications (NDAs) or bio...

Two industry trade associations and a pharmaceutical company are asking for some adjustments and clarification on the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) draft guidance on safety reporting or investigational drugs and devices. The comment period on the guidance closed at the end of November.   FDA’s draft guidance includes details of how the agency believes investigators should report serious and non-serious adverse events in investigational new drug applicatio...