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Vaccine Suspension: FDA Leans Into Its Withdrawal Toolbox, But Will It Invite Challenges?

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On August 22, 2025, FDA suspended the biologics license for Ixchiq, one of only two marketed chikungunya vaccines. The decision to suspend comes only a few weeks after FDA approved a Safety Labeling Change supplemental...more

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Eli Lilly Files Suit Challenging the FDA’s Drug Classification of Retatrutide

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​​​​​​​On September 3, 2024, Eli Lilly filed a complaint against the FDA in the District Court for the Southern District of Indiana pursuing the latest challenge to the FDA’s application of its “biological product”...more

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Want to Say It Ain't So? FDA Guides Firms on How to Respond to Misinformation

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Health providers and consumers increasingly rely on the internet for health and medical-related information, but not all such information is reliable, and many statements are downright false. The proliferation of social media...more

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FDA Issues Draft Guidance on Use of “Generally Accepted Scientific Knowledge” to Support Drug and Biologic Applications

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Could Help to Streamline Development and Approval - On May 25, 2023, the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA” or the “Agency”) announced the availability of a new Draft Guidance for Industry, Generally Accepted Scientific...more

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Takeaways from FDA’s Approval of the First Interchangeable Biosimilar for Humira®

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On October 15, 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) approved Boehringer Ingelheim’s Cyltezo® (adalimumab-adbm), the first interchangeable biosimilar to AbbVie’s blockbuster immunosuppressant Humira®...more

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FDA Reduces Regulatory Uncertainty with New Finalized Rule Defining "Biological Product" under BPCIA to Include Insulin and Other...

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Key Points - In February, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a "bright-line rule" redefining "biological products" under the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (BPCIA) to include insulin and other...more

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What comes out, must go back in: Court sides with FDA on “same surgical procedure” and “homologous use” definitions governing...

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FDA authority to crack down on illegally marketed stem cell treatments confirmed - On Monday, a federal District Court in Florida issued a decisive blow against US Stem Cell Clinic, LLC, granting the U.S. Food and Drug...more

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FDA Approves the First Gene Therapy to Treat an Inherited Disease

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On December 19, 2017, FDA approved the gene therapy Luxturna (voretigene neparvovec-rzyl), developed by Spark Therapeutics, to treat children and adults with biallelic REP65 mutation-associated retinal dystrophy, an inherited...more

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Alert: FDA Maintains Assigned Unique Suffixes in Generic Names for Biologics

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On January 12, 2017, the FDA issued its final guidance on generic naming for biological products submitted pursuant to 351(a) or (k) of the Public Health Service Act. The guidance is titled Nonproprietary Naming for...more

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Basics of the BPCIA

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The FDA broadly defines biologics as medical products derived from living sources (human, animal, plant, or microorganism) intended to treat or prevent diseases. Biologics thus include such varied vehicles of medical...more

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D.C. District Court Deals Blow to HHS 340B Program Interpretive Rule

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Court says Congress has the power to make the change that HHS attempted with its Interpretive Rule, and thus it should be left to the legislative branch. A lawsuit challenging the Interpretive Rule, filed by the...more

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HRSA Issues 340B Program Omnibus Guidance

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On August 28, 2015, the Health Resources and Services Administration (“HRSA”) published proposed Omnibus Guidance (the “Proposed Guidance”) governing policies related to section 340B of the Public Health Service Act (“PHSA”),...more

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CMS Issues Guidance on Reimbursement for Biosimilars under Medicare and Medicaid

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Biosimilars Are Generally Treated as Single Source Drugs - On March 30, 2015, in the wake of the first biosimilar product licensed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services...more

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Purple is the New Orange: FDA Releases a Purple Book for Biosimilars

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On September 9, 2014, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) published the first edition of the Purple Book: Lists of Licensed Biological Products with Reference Product Exclusivity and Biosimilarity or...more

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FDA Releases Another Prospective Guidance

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On August 5th, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a "Guidance for Industry" entitled "Reference Product Exclusivity for Biological Products file under Section 351(a) of the PHS Act." Before setting forth the first...more

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