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Genentech review of Tessier-Lavigne paper finds no evidence of fraud — but hints at a different misconduct case

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South San Francisco biotech Genentech on Thursday announced that an internal review of misconduct allegations concerning a landmark 2009 paper co-authored by Marc Tessier-Lavigne, a former top executive at the company and Stanford University’s current president, did not find any evidence of fraud or intentional wrongdoing.

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STAT+: White House moves closer to a ban on menthol cigarettes, amid intensifying opposition from tobacco companies

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The tobacco industry has already spent the last few months doing everything it can to drum up opposition, from drafting letters for members of Congress to rallying freedom-focused smokers, according to a review of advertising databases, leaked documents, and research reports.

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Driving QbD as a quality standard in drug development

European Pharmaceutical Review

While advantages to the Quality by Design approach is clear and practical implementation of Quality by Design is encouraged by publication of public guidance documents ICH Q8(R2) – ICH Q14, the industry has not yet fully embraced the QbD approach in Marketing Authorisation Applications (MAAs) for European market approval, the authors noted.

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STAT+: Pharmalittle: Woodcock to retire from the FDA; Acrotech urged to speed up confirmatory study of cancer drugs

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They were approved under the FDA accelerated pathway in 2009 and 2014, respectively, for treating a rare form of blood cancer. The  The company’s final study plan was submitted to the FDA in 2022 and is expected to be completed  by 2030 , according to FDA briefing documents published earlier this week.

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Biogen’s $900 million settlement signals scrutiny on speaker fees

Pharmaceutical Technology

In 2009, former Biogen employee Michael Bawduniak filed a lawsuit claiming that Biogen had violated the False Claims Act and the Anti-Kickback Statute by providing millions of dollars to healthcare providers (HCPs) as an incentive to prescribe three of its multiple sclerosis (MS) drugs.

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Trial finds care home prescribing pharmacists improve drug burden index

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

These risk were recognised in data from a 2009 study found that in a home of 259 residents, taking a mean of eight different medicines, 69.5% had one or more errors. Given this high level of errors, various interventions have been developed to optimise prescribing for elderly CH residents.

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Annex 1 Implementation Strategies

ISPE

First published in 1989, there have been a total of 5 adaptations in 1996, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009, but no complete revision. Annex 1 of the EC GMP Guide " Manufacture of Sterile Medicinal Products " has a long history. In 2012, there was a proposal for a complete revision which resulted in a concept paper in 2015.