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Are timely access and robust safety mutually exclusive?

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The FDA approves new cancer treatments in half the time of the EMA – but does faster mean better? And how can regulators balance timely access with robust safety? Cancer patients in Europe wait an average of almost eight months longer for access to breakthrough medications than their American counterparts.

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FDA extends review of GSK’s myelofibrosis drug

Pharmaceutical Technology

UK-based pharmaceutical giant GSK has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has extended the review period of its new drug application (NDA) for the rare bone cancer drug momelotinib by three months. Novartis and Incyte Corp’s Jakafi was the first FDA-approved drug for the treatment of myelofibrosis in November 2011.

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Hip Innovation Technology Announces Initiation of FDA Approved Investigational Device Exemption Study

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Hip Innovation Technology , LLC (HIT), a medical device company developing innovative orthopaedic device solutions to advance the quality of life and quality of care for patients, is pleased to announce the first U.S. Safety will be assessed through the collection of device-related adverse events and patient quality of life metrics.

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UroMems Announces First-Ever Smart Artificial Urinary Sphincter Implant in a Female Patient

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UroMems , a global company developing innovative, mechatronics technology to treat stress urinary incontinence (SUI), announced today that it has successfully completed the first-ever implant of the UroActive smart, automated artificial urinary sphincter (AUS) in a female patient. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for UroActive. .

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Pharmaceutical industry: 2023 in retrospect

European Pharmaceutical Review

4 The use of CPCA assessments allows for the assignment of scientifically justifiable higher acceptable intakes (AIs), without impacting patient safety. During August 2023 the FDA also updated its guidance for NDSRIs 7 and it was closely aligned (but not identical) to EMA’s evolving guidance.

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Thursday pharma headlines

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regulators knew about reports of suicidal behavior in men taking the anti-baldness treatment Propecia when they decided not to warn consumers of those potential risks in a 2011 update of the popular drug’s label. The national vaccine safety surveillance program run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S.

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Early cell therapy successes start to turn the tide in lupus

Pharmaceutical Technology

In September, a group from Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg reported that five patients with lupus achieved remission after an infusion of autologous chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cells led to a deep depletion of B cells. All five patients achieved remission after three months.