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D.C. Circuit Sides with Manufacturers in Latest 340B Contract Pharmacy Case

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Kirschenbaum — Last week, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that Section 340B of the Public Health Service Act does not prohibit pharmaceutical manufacturers from imposing conditions on the distribution of discounted drugs to covered entities in the program. In United Therapeutics Corporation v.

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Vanda-lay Litigation Industries, Inc.: Taking Stock of Vanda Pharmaceuticals, Inc.’s Big Bets on Petitioning and Litigation Against FDA and the Federal Government

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District Court for the District of Columbia (“DDC”) against FDA alleging that the Agency’s structure of NDA review is unconstitutional (by our count the 31st Vanda litigation against FDA or another government entity in the last five years, including appeals). 9/22/2023: Supplement from Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. 1:2022cv00938 (D.D.C.)

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GAO Report on Clinical Research Inspections Encourages FDA to Care for its Clinical Inspection Program

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Many have noted that FDA has been slow to recover We’ve blogged before on FDA’s post-pandemic inspection work, writing about the resumption of both good manufacturing practice (GMP) and bioresearch monitoring (BIMO) inspections. In 2022, the Government Accountability Office reported that FDA needed to improve its foreign inspection program.

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News on FDA’s Quality Management Maturity Program-Maturity to Continually Improve and to not be Reactive

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Brevig, Senior Regulatory Device and Biologics Expert — In January 2023, FDA published a paper summarizing its lessons learned from two pilot Quality Management Maturity (QMM) Pilot Programs, such as best practices for conducting QMM assessments and developing the QMM scoring system. By Holly N.

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As the Calendar Turns, Cybersecurity Remains Key Focus of Digital Health Enforcement

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It is another effort from CDRH’s Digital Health Center of Excellence to provide structure and guidance to participants across the connected device playing field, including both delivery organizations as well as manufacturers. Digital providers and manufacturers not only have the concerns of the FDA to consider, but those of the FTC as well.

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Does the Drug Shortage White Paper Fall Short?

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For generic drug manufacturing facilities specifically, the numbers are 63% and 87%. The proposed Manufacturing Resiliency Assessment Program (MRAP) would be managed as a public-private partnership and would assign resilience scores to manufacturers of generic drugs, “based on an assessment of manufacturer practices and past performance.”

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New Breakthrough Devices Program Guidance: Expanding Opportunities for Medical Product Innovations

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This implies that if device technologies and features can produce a clinically meaningful impact for the treatment or diagnosis of a condition in certain populations, such data could support the case that the device satisfies the first designation criterion. By Philip Won & Lisa M.

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