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Share on Twitter Print Share by Email Share Back to top In spring 2025, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) resolved and ended the GLP-1 medications shortage, subsequently releasing declaratory orders that neither...more
The FDA released a Declaratory Order on December 19th re-evaluating and essentially re-instituting its previous position on the tirzepatide shortage, declaring the shortage resolved. As a bit of history, on October 2, 2024...more
On Friday, August 4th, the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) announced the availability of a final guidance document, titled “Waivers, Exceptions, and Exemptions From the Requirements of Section 582 of the Federal Food,...more
On July 13, the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued guidance to retail pharmacies that refusing to dispense a prescribed medication or making a determination on the suitability of...more
Earlier in the summer, the FDA issued a quartet of guidance documents setting forth the Agency’s plan for implementing requirements under the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA). The DSCSA directs FDA to build an...more
This month, a working group within the Pharmacy Directors Forum of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) has reviewed and highlighted “some of the potential challenges regarding adopting biosimilars into clinical...more
Health Canada has recognized for many years that the current regulatory regime on drug sampling, which significantly restricts the distribution of drug samples to both consumers and health care professionals, is outdated. For...more
The recent Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) memorandum to all Medicare Advantage Organizations, Part D Sponsors, and Medicare-Medicaid Plans (CMS Memo) does not provide any express relief for specialty...more
In the face of these unprecedented times brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, pharmacies are grappling to find ways to protect patients and employees. In response, state officials and boards of pharmacies have reacted in a...more
Orders of prohibition relating to polymorphic form patent for PRISTIQ upheld on appeal - As previously reported, the Federal Court, in a pair of decisions, granted orders prohibiting Apotex and Teva from marketing their...more
On Dec. 12, 2018, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb announced tougher compliance and enforcement policies for drug manufacturers, dietary supplement manufacturers, stem cell clinics and...more
Members of the pharmaceutical supply chain, including drug wholesalers and manufacturers, are grappling with fast-approaching deadlines for compliance with new federal regulatory requirements. The Drug Quality and Security...more
On June 12, the FDA issued guidance that clarifies its recommendations for certain product communications made by medical product manufacturers, packers, and distributors (collectively “firms”). The guidance, “Medical Product...more
On June 12, 2018, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released draft guidance entitled "Drug and Device Manufacturer Communications With Payors, Formulary Committees, and Similar Entities - Questions and Answers"...more
CMS has slowly but surely been providing additional guidance to Medicare Plans (Medicare Advantage and Part D plans) regarding steps they can and should take to address the opioid epidemic as it relates to their...more
In January 2018, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) published two guidance documents on Compounded Drug Products That Are Essentially Copies Of Approved Drug Products under Section 503A and Section 503B of the Federal...more
Last week, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), part of HHS, released proposed new guidance for covered entities enrolled in the 340B Drug Pricing Program, as well as drug manufacturers required to make...more
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released its proposed 340B Drug Pricing Program Omnibus Guidance (Omnibus Guidance) on August 28, 2015. The Omnibus Guidance offers comprehensive – and, in some cases, new –...more
On June 30, 2015, a mere day before the product tracing deadline for dispensers was to go into effect, FDA published a compliance policy guidance that delays enforcement of the applicable product tracing requirements until...more