FDA Law

JUNE 3, 2021

Schlanger — While federal efforts to address prescription drug prices are debated, states have continued to pursue their own measures that require drug manufacturers and other entities in the drug supply chain to disclose information about pricing. The 2019 law did not include any penalties for noncompliance with these reporting requirements.

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FDA Law

JUNE 28, 2021

Under current Minnesota law enacted in May 2019, manufacturers that sell, deliver, or distribute into or within Minnesota 2 million or more units of an opiate are required to pay an annual product registration fee of $250,000.

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FDA Law

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Pfizer manufactures tafamidis (sold under brand names Vyndaqel and Vyndamax), a breakthrough treatment for a rare, progressive heart condition called transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM). In June 2019, Pfizer sought an OIG advisory opinion to ensure that its proposal would not run afoul of federal law. Background.

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FDA Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Number of Manufacturing Sites and Registered Products. The report states that for fiscal year 2021, there were 4,451 CDER drug manufacturing sites, which is a 3% increase over fiscal year 2018, the only comparison year provided. For fiscal year 2021, CDER oversaw 12,428 ANDAs, 3,537 NDAs and 315 BLAs. Import Alerts and Recalls.

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FDA Law

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

More recently, in 2019, FDA announced a push for predicate modernization ( link ) following a 2018 plan to modernize the 510(k) program by eliminating use of old predicates, sunsetting older predicates, and establishing the Safety and Performance Based Pathway ( link ). Baumhardt, Senior Medical Device Regulation Expert & Adrienne R.

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FDA Law

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), which reported that discounted purchases totaled $38 billion in 2020, a 27% increase compared to 2019. Manufacturers may choose not to participate in this program, but the federal government will not reimburse for their outpatient drugs under Medicaid or Medicare Part B if they do not.

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FDA Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Last week, a panel of three judges at the Third Circuit who reviewed these three cases decided in favor of the drug manufacturers. First, the statute requires manufacturers to offer 340B prices to covered entities but is silent about delivery. HRSA argued that it unambiguously did, and the companies sued. A lot is at stake here.

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FDA Law

JUNE 15, 2022

billion annually, and continued the same reimbursement cuts for 2019. In 2019, we blogged that the District Court found for the plaintiffs, holding that CMS did not have the statutory authority to make such a change without first conducting a hospital acquisition cost survey data. CMS estimated a savings of $1.6

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FDA Law

MARCH 1, 2023

FDA published two Federal Register Notices in October 2020 to recruit domestic drug product manufacturers of finished dosage forms and foreign manufacturers of active pharmaceutical ingredients to participate in the QMM Pilot Programs. FDA describes the QMM as “above-the-bar behaviors” that exceed good manufacturing practices (GMPs).

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FDA Law

OCTOBER 14, 2021

FDA issued the same type of warning regarding RAS devices and mastectomy back in February 2019 suggesting that FDA believes the problem has persisted. Given these onerous requirements, it is not a surprise that RAS device manufacturers have not sought clearance for RAS devices for oncology procedures.

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FDA Law

OCTOBER 20, 2021

As we have previously discussed , under the PMTA pathway, manufacturers must demonstrate that, among other things, marketing of the new tobacco product would be appropriate for the protection of the public health. In a press release announcing the orders, Mitch Zeller, J.D., million products, mostly ENDS products, by the deadline of Sept.

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FDA Law

OCTOBER 2, 2024

FDA, Guidance for Industry, The Special 510(k) Program (2019). A draft guidance issued last year focused on PCCPs for devices incorporating artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), which we blogged about here ; this guidance has not yet been finalized. Change Guidance at 8. Draft Guidance at 34.

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FDA Law

APRIL 19, 2021

The Court decision limiting FDA’s discretion provides regulatory certainty for device manufacturers, as the claimed discretion, if recognized by the Court, would have meant that any medical device potentially could be classified and regulated as a drug. Two judges on the D.C.

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FDA Law

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

FDA indicates that this guidance is intended to help manufacturers ensure consistent content and format of the statement of identity and strength for all nonprescription drug products, which then will allow consumers to compare products. For both draft guidances, it is unclear what induced FDA to publish these draft guidances now.

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FDA Law

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Court Opinion One of Defendant’s primary arguments was that its SVF treatments constituted the practice of medicine, not the manufacture and administration of a “drug” and were, therefore, not subject to FDA regulation. 588, 566 (2019)). Defendants may also seek en banc review of the decision from the full Ninth Circuit.

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FDA Law

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Javitt — On September 28, 2022, the FDA issued the long anticipated final Clinical Decision Support Software Guidance (CDS Guidance), which replaces the revised draft guidance document from 2019. Interpretation of Statutory Criteria Under the Final Guidance. Medical information about a patient.

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Health One Family Medicine

APRIL 30, 2021

As with parabens, manufacturers add them to reduce the risk of bacterial contamination. Contaminated Talc In 2019, the FDA advised consumers to avoid using certain cosmetic products because they tested positive for asbestos. These ingredients can cause cancer and are commonly found in skincare products that we use regularly.

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FDA Law

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Specifically, Vanda alleges that FDA communications to certain generic competitors regarding dissolution rates, impurities, and micronization revealed Vanda’s confidential manufacturing information and caused economic injury to the company. Or consider Vanda’s lawsuit filed in the U.S. VANDA PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. 1:2022cv00938 (D.D.C.)

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FDA Law

MAY 2, 2022

They are the most stringently regulated substances of abuse and it is unlawful to manufacture and distribute them. 15 and 16, 2019). Attorneys on not prosecuting marijuana cases in states that have legalized activities, the Attorney General replied that the position taken during his February 2021 confirmation hearing had not changed.

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FDA Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The Guidance provides practical advice for device manufacturers to utilize patient engagement in clinical studies. For additional information on planning patient engagement, please see the CDRH’s Patient Science and Engagement Program. Finally, mark your calendars for the upcoming March 22, 2022 FDA webinar about this Guidance.

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FDA Law

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In other words, the California law assumes that every potential Paragraph IV patent settlement is anticompetitive, and the pharmaceutical manufacturers must show that the settlement is not anticompetitive to avoid upwards of $20 million in fines. The case was dismissed without prejudice. Actavis , 510 U.S.

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FDA Law

APRIL 11, 2022

As background, Medtronic manufactures the MiniMed 600 series insulin infusion pumps. During an inspection, FDA learned that Medtronic had opened a CAPA to address complaints of damaged retainer rings in these pumps (more than 74,000 between June 2016 and November 2019, with more than 57,000 reported to FDA as MDRs).

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Bob’s journey here begins in 2019 — the first day of high school for his daughter, Mary. In January of last year, Cole went to a Walgreens in Appleton, Wisconsin, to get refills on the medication he used to control his asthma. He’d been taking it for years, and he expected to pay about seventy bucks. He left without it.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Between the years 2019 and 2021, Harrison served as Associate Editor—and later as Managing Editor—of Wear Your Voice Magazine. Siddiqui October 31, 2023 Summary : This episode highlights the culture of food shaming and anti-fatness as it relates to anti-Blackness. During this episode, we hear from Da’Shaun L. is rooted in anti-Blackness.

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FDA Law

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

CMS did not finalize the price verification survey, which would have required manufacturers of 10 costly drugs selected annually to provide clinical information as well as information on production, distribution, research, and marketing costs, revenue and profit, and ex-U.S. Remarkably, manufacturers may not dispute a CMS notification.

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

AFP 2019 Gabapentin for chronic neuropathic pain in adults. By 2015 that number increased to 4% of US adults. There are a lot of reasons that may explain the massive increase in use of these drugs. One thing is clear, it is not because people are using it for FDA approved indications. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Review.

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GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Weve covered psychedelics on the podcast beforefirst in 2019 with Ira Byock, where we explored their potential role in medicine , and then again in 2023 with Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, and Theora Cimino, focusing on the reasons to approach psychedelic use in patients with caution. It’s there.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

On Sensible Medicine, Dr. Edward Livingston pointed out that the manufacturer, AbbVie, spent $580 million on DTCA for this drug in 2023, or $290 for each of the 2 million potential patients in the United States. The annual price of risankizumab is $288,000, so this is still a huge bargain for the company given the potential returns.

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FDA Law

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In other words, the California law assumes that every potential Paragraph IV patent settlement is anticompetitive, and the pharmaceutical manufacturers must show that the settlement is not anticompetitive to avoid upwards of $20 million in fines. The case was dismissed without prejudice. Actavis , 510 U.S.

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FDA Law

JUNE 2, 2023

Most are new or revised definitions and administrative changes, but several proposals represent new policies that should be of concern to drug manufacturers. Price Transparency Surveys The MDRP statute requires manufacturers to submit only three prices: average manufacturer price (AMP), best price, and nominal prices.

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FDA Law

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Reported illnesses began just three days before Thanksgiving in 2017, but due to the unknown source of the turkey at the center of the outbreak, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) did not conclude the outbreak investigation until April 2019. Two days before Thanksgiving the following year, the CDC warned U.S.

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FDA Law

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The authors suggested that the developers of such therapies would receive a priority review voucher that they can sell to manufacturers of blockbuster drugs. This time, however, the program, which has helped incentivize the development of dozens of pediatric rare disease therapies since 2012, was not renewed.

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FDA Law

AUGUST 21, 2023

Specifically, the Court explained, because “[t]he Pregnancy Warning Regulation simply does not speak to whether a further warning related to a drug’s use during pregnancy can be added to the general Pregnancy Warning on a drug label, whether added by the FDA or added by a manufacturer,” the ”regulation does not, therefore, preempt state law.”

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FDA Law

JANUARY 11, 2022

The Federal Circuit twice reversed the District Court decision at issue in GSK v. Amarin listed Vascepa in the Orange Book with multiple patents, including several method-of-use patents covering only the CV indication. Teva from this case. The Court again made sure to emphasize language from GSK v. As we have learned from GSK v.

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FDA Law

JANUARY 11, 2022

The Federal Circuit twice reversed the District Court decision at issue in GSK v. Amarin listed Vascepa in the Orange Book with multiple patents, including several method-of-use patents covering only the CV indication. Teva from this case. The Court again made sure to emphasize language from GSK v. As we have learned from GSK v.

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FDA Law

JUNE 10, 2025

Special Surveillance List of Chemicals, Products, Materials and Equipment Used in the Manufacture of Controlled Substances and Listed Chemicals, 90 Fed. We think that the agency will revise and update the list more frequently as clandestine manufacturing trends require. 21 U.S.C. § 21 U.S.C. § 842(a)(11). 21 U.S.C. § 842(a)(11).

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Tiny Physician

OCTOBER 17, 2021

It is worth noting that Covaxin, our indigenously developed vaccine manufactured by Bharat Biotech, is on the verge of getting approval in the pediatric age group as well (6). Contrary to our beliefs, the second wave came and exposed all the weaknesses of our health system. Dipankar et.

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