The FDA is warning healthcare professionals of potential risks associated with compounded ketamine nasal spray (here). The Agency states that there is no approved ketamine nasal spray. Hey, wait a minute! (you might say); I could have sworn that I read about a ketamine nasal spray approval? Well, close! The product you may be thinking […]
The most popular program of each year’s AAM Annual Meeting is always the CEO unplugged session. Oftentimes there are significant disagreements between the different CEOs regarding strategy, but this year there was almost complete agreement on strategic issues, policy, the marketplace, and regulatory issues. The four panelists were Sven Dethlefs, Ph.D, Executive Vice President, North […]
(Not that we had anything to do with Califf’s confirmation but we are all glad that this is in the Agency’s rearview mirror and it now has a permanent rudder for the foreseeable future.) Anyway, the AAM annual meeting is in full swing and I thought that I would give a few bullet points of […]
January 2022 was a much better month than the previous, thanks to (what looked like) an end‑of‑the‑month approval flurry as twenty‑seven ANDAs received full‑approval actions in the last five business days. Remember that these are unofficial totals gathered from the FDA’s Recent New and Generic Drug Approvals list (here) and the Agency’s All Approvals List […]
Originally published on January 4, 2018, the Agency says it has finalized and revised the guidance document in response to “comments received on the draft guidance as the guidance was finalized and made minor edits and other editorial changes to improve clarity. Revisions include clarification of the recommendations pertaining to patent and exclusivity deficiencies, as […]
We hit the number of December full‑approval actions on the head (thirty‑four) in our post here; however, we were way short on our estimate of tentative‑approval actions. We noted thirteen at the time of publication in the above‑listed article but the official total reported this morning was twenty‑two. Thus, the total number of approval actions […]
While it has been over a full month waiting for official approval numbers, receipts and complete response statistics for November of FY 2022 to post, and after bemoaning the delay in one of posts yesterday, they popped up either overnight or early this morning. The full approval actions hit 67 (we unofficially missed by one […]
The OGD updated its statistics for the first month of the fiscal year but here we are on December 23 and the usual November early stats for approvals, Complete Response Letters, and new ANDA submissions have not yet posted. Anyway, back to the October updated statistics. There were 3 refuse-to-file (RTR) letters issued to start […]
The FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health issued two guidance documents to address the transition plans for device EUAs issued during the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE). The first guidance is titled Transition Plan for Medical Devices Issued Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Public Health Emergency and the companion […]
FDA approval actions listed through December 15th include only seventeen full‑approval actions and six tentative‑approval actions for a total of twenty‑three total approval actions. As it stands, if these numbers represent one half of a month, it would mean that, at the current pace, we would see forty‑six total approval actions for the month of […]
