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Zachary Brennan
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A House Energy & Commerce subcommittee is wrapping up a meeting today on the FDA's role in advancing US drug development. While no FDA officials are testifying at the hearing, the topic is an important one as the agency has typically led the world in drug approvals in terms of speed and quantity. But how many new FDA incentives will be necessary to help the US compete with China? That remains an open question. Check out Max's coverage below on a bipartisan measure that would throw cold water on US biotech companies trying to strike deals with Chinese firms.

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Zachary Brennan
Senior Editor, Endpoints News
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by Zachary Brennan

The FDA on Fri­day post­ed 14 new re­jec­tion let­ters to phar­ma com­pa­nies on­line, days af­ter HHS con­firmed to End­points Newsthat the agency had paused...

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by Zachary Brennan

The FDA's drug cen­ter hired more new em­ploy­ees than it lost in a quar­ter for the first time since the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion gut­ted the agen­cy's...

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by Max Bayer

Af­ter set­ting the in­dus­try ablaze last month, a bi­par­ti­san bill aimed at re­strict­ing US biotech com­pa­nies from strik­ing deals with Chi­nese coun­ter­parts is in lim­bo...

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by Anna Brown

The FDA is propos­ing a rule to change how fac­to­ries are reg­is­tered with the agency if they are mak­ing prod­ucts for the US mar­ket, as...

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by Max Bayer

The FDA has fi­nal­ized clin­i­cal guid­ance for psy­che­del­ic drug de­vel­op­ers and has sched­uled a pub­lic hear­ing on fu­ture ther­a­peu­tic use, adding reg­u­la­to­ry mo­men­tum to a...

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by Zachary Brennan

The FDA has chas­tised Lund­beck Seat­tle Bio­phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals for two pro­mo­tion­al web­pages that made al­leged­ly in­flat­ed claims re­gard­ing the ef­fi­ca­cy of its mi­graine drug.

In an ...

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by Zachary Brennan