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Follow-Up Trials for Drugs with Accelerated Approval Often Miss FDA Deadline

Drug Topics

Data suggest confirmatory trials conducted for drugs granted accelerated approval by the FDA have taken over 3 years on average to complete since 2012.

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Opinion: The rare pediatric disease voucher program creates new treatments. I have new data to prove it

STAT

The Food and Drug Administration’s rare pediatric disease priority review voucher program , which has been providing incentives for lifesaving innovations since 2012, is doomed to disappear unless Congress reauthorizes it before the end of September. I have data showing it works. None worked. Read the rest…

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STAT+: Former FDA official lays out how to keep patients safe from risky medical devices

STAT

” That train of thought — calculating risks, eliminating threats — eventually led her to a job with the Food and Drug Administration in 2012 as a public health analyst. And I thought, doesn’t that mean nobody should really be sliding down poles?”

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FDA Approves Premarket Approval Application for OraQuick HIV Self-Test, Expanding Access to Adolescents

Pharmacy Times

OraQuick was the first at-home HIV test kit to be approved by the FDA in 2012.

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First FDA pregnancy-approved Pertussis vaccine to protect newborns

European Pharmaceutical Review

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals’ Boostrix vaccine for use in pregnant woman in their third trimester, to prevent against whooping cough (pertussis) in infants up to two months of age. Since 2012, the CDC has recommended the vaccine series during the third trimester of each pregnancy.

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J&J's tuberculosis med Sirturo lands full US, EU approvals after more than a decade on the market

Fierce Pharma

The traditional approvals follow initial accelerated approvals granted by the FDA in 2012 and the European Commission in 2014. It took many years, but Johnson & Johnson’s tuberculosis med Sirturo can finally claim full approvals in the U.S. and Europe following initial conditional nods. |

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Switzerland and US sign drug inspection agreement

European Pharmaceutical Review

Under the agreement with the Swiss Confederation (Switzerland), the Swiss Agency for Therapeutic Products (Swissmedic) and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will be able to utilise each other’s GMP inspections of pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities, avoiding the need for duplicate inspections.

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