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1. CBER official overruled review team's rejection of new Replimune melanoma drug
2. Pharma's legal battle over Medicare negotiations reaches 'dead end'
3. Trump announces nine new drug pricing deals, this time with midsize biotechs
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6. FDA approves Takeda, Protagonist drug as first treatment for rare blood disorder
Zachary Brennan
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Four interesting odds and ends in FDA land this week: 1) If you were thinking about making biopharma stock purchases based on insider info, this new FDA and SEC memorandum of understanding should further discourage you. 2) The agency is reportedly scrapping a controversial program from March that offered bonus payments to drug reviewers who sped up reviews. 3) The fight over the limits of drug compounding is just getting started and the FDA late last week named Clint Narver as the permanent director of its Office of Compounding Quality and Compliance. 4) FDA's Office of Prescription Drug Promotion unveiled its first untitled letter for a preapproval promotion since 2022.

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Zachary Brennan
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by Zachary Brennan

Asha Das, di­rec­tor of the FDA bi­o­log­ics cen­ter's of­fice of clin­i­cal eval­u­a­tion, over­ruled the agen­cy's re­view team in grant­i­ng an ac­cel­er­at­ed ap­proval to Replimune's melanoma...

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by Nicole DeFeudis

The phar­ma in­dus­try has suf­fered a de­fin­i­tive loss in its le­gal bat­tle against Medicare ne­go­ti­a­tions.

The Fifth Cir­cuit Court of Ap­peals on Wednes­day re­ject­eda...

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President Donald Trump unveils nine new agreements with drugmakers on August 31. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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by Max Bayer

Nine new com­pa­nies have an­nounced vol­un­tary drug pric­ing deals with the White House, look­ing to avoid in­dus­try tar­iffs and in­clu­sion in two CMS pi­lot pro­grams...

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by Max Bayer

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump an­nounced vol­un­tary drug pric­ing deals with nine new com­pa­nies on Mon­day, for the first time veer­ing out­side of the orig­i­nal crop of...

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by Ryan Cross

The dream of mak­ing per­son­al­ized ge­net­ic med­i­cines at a mo­ment’s no­tice just got a ma­jor in­fu­sion of fund­ing from the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment.

Five groups were...

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by Max Gelman

The FDA ap­proved rus­fer­tide, a new drug from Take­da and Pro­tag­o­nist Ther­a­peu­tics to treat a rare blood dis­ease.

Rus­fer­tide, which will be brand­ed as Mim­ry­lo, can...

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