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FDA Commissioner Makary Promises “Real Time” Release of Complete Response Letters: Can FDA Really Do That?

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On July 10, 2025, in the name of embracing “radical transparency,” the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) announced that it was publishing more than 200 complete response letters (“CRLs”) issued in response to drug and...more

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Biosimilars Boom: 2025’s Fast Track Approvals Look to Reshape Healthcare

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With healthcare costs rising and biologics driving a large portion of drug spend, the next wave of biosimilar launches promises to reshape the U.S. pharmaceutical market in profound ways, including reduced prices for close...more

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The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act and Life Sciences Innovation

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The biotechnology and life science sectors underpin breakthroughs in health care, agriculture, and environmental sustainability by leveraging living systems to create next-generation medicines, diagnostics, and bio-based...more

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Insights from the Third Annual Ropes & Gray Rare Disease Forum

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Ropes & Gray recently hosted its Third Annual Ropes & Gray Rare Disease Forum on May 1, 2025 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The event gathered legal, commercial, and patient advocacy experts in the rare disease community to...more

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FDA Issues Draft Guidance Describing When a Confirmatory Trial of a Drug Seeking Accelerated Approval Is “Underway”

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In recent years, Congress and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) have sought to reform the accelerated approval process, an expedited development and approval pathway for drugs that provide meaningful therapeutic...more

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FDA Announces Proposed Rule Regarding Laboratory Developed Tests

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The highly anticipated rule, which would make explicit that LDTs are medical devices subject to FDA oversight, proposes to end the agency's general enforcement discretion approach to such devices....more

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FDA Revises Guidance Concerning Scientific Communications to HCPs about Unapproved Uses of Approved/Cleared Medical Products

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a long-awaited revised draft guidance on October 23, 2023, which focuses on communications to healthcare providers (HCPs) regarding scientific information on unapproved uses...more

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FDA Omnibus Reform Act: Examining the Policy Changes

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The Act introduces key reforms to the FDA regulatory framework relating to drugs, biological products, and cosmetics, among others. On December 29, 2022, President Biden signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023...more

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In sharp rebuke to Trump Administration, HHS notice ending Unapproved Drugs Initiative is withdrawn

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On November 20, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) had announced that the Department was terminating the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Marketed Unapproved Drugs Initiative (UDI). ...more

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UPDATE: Trump Administration’s Midnight Rulemaking to Exempt Certain Class I and II Devices from 510(k) Requirement Rescinded

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In a not-so-unexpected turn of events, the Biden-Harris administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rescinded a notice issued by the Trump administration’s HHS...more

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HHS proposal to exempt medical devices from 510(k) process halted

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On January 15, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a notice and request for information (RFI) proposing to exempt 91 medical devices – for which the normal regulatory process was temporarily...more

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HHS ends FDA Unapproved Drugs Initiative, seeks to limit which drugs require FDA approval

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On November 20, 2020, the U.S. Health and Human Services Department (HHS) announced that the Department was terminating the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Marketed Unapproved Drugs Initiative (UDI)....more

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CARES Act Reforms Monograph System For Over-The-Counter Drugs

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Included in the CARES Act are long-awaited reforms to the FDA’s regulation of over-the-counter (OTC) medications. H.R. 748, §§ 3851-3862. The FDA has hailed the law as granting it “transformative, new authorities that will...more

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A new right for American patients: The Right to Try

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On May 22, 2018, the U.S. House of Representatives passed Senate Bill 204, commonly known as the “Right to Try Act of 2017” by a vote of 250-169. The bill gives certain patients with life-threatening conditions the right to...more

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Congress Takes Up FDA Over-The-Counter (OTC) Drug Regulation Reform

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On September 13, the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Health held a hearing to examine draft legislation to create a new user fee program and completely revamp the review process...more

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