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How to Run DMC? It’s Tricky – FDA’s New Draft Guidance Provides Updated Recommendations on How to Best Use Data Monitoring Committees in Clinical Trials

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Clissold — The trio of CDER, CBER, and CDRH released a new draft guidance titled “ Use of Data Monitoring Committees in Clinical Trials ” that revises the 2006 guidance “Establishment and Operation of Clinical Trial Data Monitoring Committees” and, when final, will replace the 2006 guidance.

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Roche eyes October decision by FDA for wet AMD implant

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The FDA has started a review of a new implant version of Roche’s ranibizumab therapy for wet age-related macular degeneration, that could offer patients with the sight-robbing disorder an alternative to monthly eye injections. . The post Roche eyes October decision by FDA for wet AMD implant appeared first on.

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FDA clears Roche’s Susvimo implant for eye disease wet AMD

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Roche’s Genentech unit has won FDA approval for Susvimo, an implant for eyesight-robbing disease wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) that gives patients an alternative to regular injections into the eye. The FDA started a priority review of the drug in July.

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FDA begins review of Samsung Bioepis/Biogen’s Lucentis biosimilar

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Novartis/Genentech’s eye drug Lucentis could be the next big blockbuster to face competition from cheaper biosimilars after its US patent expired this year – and Samsung Bioepis and Biogen are closing in after the FDA accepted a filing for their cut-price rival.

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Gilead wins patent battle with US government over HIV PrEP drugs

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The CDC had applied for patents back in 2006, and was later granted four in 2015. The FDA approved Truvada as the first PrEP treatment in July 2012, with Descovy receiving a nod for this use in October 2019. Truvada has since gone generic, with Teva Pharmaceuticals launching the first FDA-approved Truvada generic in October 2020.

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Sanofi extends its Pompe range with first Nexviazyme OK

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Sanofi has added another string to its Pompe disease therapy bow, after getting FDA approval for Nexviazyme, its latest therapy for the rare, inherited disorder. Myozyme was first to market in 2006 for infantile-onset Pompe, with Lumizyme reaching the market four years later to treat late-onset Pompe in children aged over eight.

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FDA Phones a Friend: Joint Statement with CMS Eschews CLIA Modernization and Supports FDA Oversight of LDTs

The FDA Law Blog

The joint press release largely repeats, and has CMS endorse, the arguments FDA has previously made in support of its proposed rule, which we rebut in the detailed comments we filed on behalf of a coalition of laboratories. There is great irony in the agencies’ professed concern for increasing bureaucracy.

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