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Treatment options for Crohn’s disease expand after Rinvoq approval

Pharmaceutical Technology

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved AbbVie’s Rinvoq (upadacitinib) for patients with Crohn’s disease who do not respond to TNF blockers, a common immune suppressant treatment for the condition. The FDA nod means Rinvoq is now approved for seven indications in gastroenterology, rheumatology and dermatology.

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MAPPing a New Route: FDA Updates MAPP on Suitability Petitions

The FDA Law Blog

Koblitz — For years, submitting a Suitability Petition has been like screaming into a void: You’d be lucky if FDA ever responds. This has been a big problem because FDA’s inattentiveness can delay entry of certain types of ANDAs for years—often resulting in the ANDA applicant’s abandonment of the Suitability Petition. Under 21 C.F.R.

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Top Performing Drug of 2021 - Trulicity (February Edition)

PharmaShots

Active Ingredient: dulaglutide Dosage Forms & Strengths: Injection: 0.75 Some of its FDA-approved competitors include: Patents7 Eli Lilly carries big expectations from Trulicity to boost its revenue. In the US, Trulicity is protected by a compound patent (2027) and by biologics data protection (2026). mL, 3 mg/0.5

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Contamination Trends & Proposed Solutions

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Identification and Analysis of Contamination Trends Three major recall databases—those of the US FDA, the United Kingdom’s Medicine and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (UK MHRA), and Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA)—were searched to assess contamination trends in the past five years. 6 (2018): 649–655. FiercePharma.

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AstraZeneca’s Challenge to Price Negotiation Fails in Federal District Court

The FDA Law Blog

First, AstraZeneca alleged that CMS improperly defined a “qualifying single source drug” to include all dosage forms and strengths of the drug marketed by the manufacturer with the same active moiety or ingredient—even if those different forms and strengths were approved under different NDAs.

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Considerations for a Decentralized Manufacturing Paradigm

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POD is suitable for a wide range of products, including oral solid dosage forms, mAbs, and cell therapy. Review: Continuous Manufacturing of Small Molecule Solid Oral Dosage Forms.” FDA Official Warns Manufacturers of Common Problems Found in Aseptic Operations.” Journal of Biotechnology 213 (2015):120–30. doi:10.1016/j.jbiotec.2015.06.388