The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is making efforts to modernize both the 510(k) approval process for medical devices and study designs for drugs and biologics....more
In late September 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a draft guidance on “Regulatory Considerations for Prescription Drug Use-Related Software.” This guidance expands on (and was developed in response...more
Last month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a final guidance on drug and biologic submissions to the agency that include real-world data (RWD) and real-world evidence (RWE). The procedural guidance aims to...more
Conducting a clinical trial is a notoriously expensive endeavor that is necessary not only for ultimate drug approval, but even to progress to the next phase of drug investigation and development. An unfortunate consequence...more
On May 25, 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a guidance document intended to help pharmacists and wholesale drug distributors understand and comply with its final rule regarding the import of certain...more
In May 2022, the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the launch of a new program for expediting the development of new treatment options for rare...more
On May 4, 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued warning letters to five companies for selling products labeled as containing delta-8 tetrahydrocannabinol (delta-8 THC) in ways that violate the Federal Food,...more
On November 20, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced it was terminating the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Unapproved Drugs Initiative (UDI), which is further described in...more
Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) took a significant step towards increased regulation of 503A human drug compounding pharmacies, which may cascade into additional state regulation. 503A compounding...more
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) announced on October 7 that it will no longer review Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) for laboratory developed tests (LDTs). LDTs are a distinct category of in vitro...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued two guidance documents outlining the agency's expectations for COVID-19 drug development. The first guidance, "COVID-19 Public Health Emergency: General...more