I read four articles this morning (here, here, here, and here) about Medicare and how it can take years to get a generic drug placed on the appropriate tier for coverage after a first generic is approved, and it just makes my blood boil. With all the press about lowering drug prices and knowing that […]
OGD reported the official approval actions, receipts, and Complete Response Letters for the first month of FY 2020. There were 57 full approval actions and 8 tentative approval actions for a total of 65 approval actions for the month of October (we reported 52 and 9 actions respectively here), so it appears that there were […]
With the FDA reporting posted through November 18th, the OGD has issued full-approval actions for just twenty-four ANDAs and has issued tentative approval actions for two ANDAs. Thanksgiving week is a notoriously slow week for approval actions due to the holiday and staff absences, so November looks like it will be a somewhat lean month […]
In a prepublication of the Federal Register today, the FDA announced its intentions to withdraw four NDAs (see chart below) for failure to submit required annual reports. In the notice, the Agency noted the firms have been contacted by the Agency but have repeatedly failed to submit the required reports. The Notice provides the firms […]
There have been eighty-six first-time generic approvals for the calendar year 2019 thus far, at least through November 8, 2019, according to the updated list by the FDA (here). The FDA wants us to remember that first approvals do not always translate into products that are immediately available to the public due to either patent […]
On Wednesday afternoon at AAM’s GRx+Biosimilars Conference in Bethesda, MD, the FDA held a valuable workshop on Complex Generic Drug Products. The workshop opened with a general session explaining the opportunities for interacting with the FDA to get guidance and input while developing your complex generic and preparing your ANDA and how to get the […]
On the last day of at the Association for Accessible Medicines GRx-Biosims conference in Bethesda, members of the FDA joined industry for an informative and interactive discussion on post-approval supplements. Dr. Paul Schwartz and his colleague Olugbenga Okubadejo expressed satisfaction with the current state of the post-approval supplement process, as well as the example of […]
Is there a Pre-Approval Inspection (PAI)? When will it be? Will our site be inspected? The anxiety-tinged queries from production (and management) personnel start almost as soon as an application is submitted, and until now regulatory personnel had little answers to offer except vague reassurances like, “We have to wait and see” or “It’s up […]
At the Association for Accessible Medicines GRx-Biosims conference currently ongoing in Bethesda, members of the FDA and industry came together to present opinions and discuss the Controlled Correspondence process. Controlled Correspondence (CC) between the FDA and industry is very much like an important pen pal relationship (where you only write to each other regularly, but […]
On the second day of AAM’s GRx-Biosims Conference, in Bethesda, Maryland, a session was held related to drug/device combination products. The session included several presenters from the FDA and industry. While the challenges with the drug/device combinations was well covered in the session, there wasn’t a lot of focus on the opportunities. The industry, as […]
