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Patents: a necessary evil?

European Pharmaceutical Review

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently expressed concern to the US PTO about some types of innovator patent strategies that potentially delay generic entry into the market. FDA highlighted that over three quarters of new patents in the Orange Book between 2005 and 2015 were assigned to existing drugs.

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Navigating the unique CMC challenges of oral anaerobic live biotherapeutics

European Pharmaceutical Review

The first drug products to achieve biological licence approval (BLA) from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are whole community products derived from human faecal matter and are indicted for Clostridium difficile infection. Firstly, the pharmacological response to LBPs does not follow traditional pharmacokinetic principles.

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Nine for 2023, part two: healthcare’s hard problem, the prognosis for diagnosis, and key new pharmacotherapy platforms

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There were developments in the past 12 months, true – Biogen/Eisai’s lecanemab (now branded Leqembi) showed clear success in the Clarity AD trial and received approval by FDA on 6th January 2023. And all are predominantly prevented or treated with medicines that are decades old. Innovation will power the market.

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Female sexual interest drug reaches tipping point with Phase III plans

Pharmaceutical Technology

The company plans to submit a request for advice from the FDA at the end of this year or the start of 2023, he adds. In 2015, the FDA approved Sprout Pharmaceuticals’s Addyi, also known under the generic name flibanserin, for use by pre-menopausal women with hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD).