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1. US government launches probe into Germany's plan to pay less for drugs 
2. HHS rolls out sweeping clinical trial reforms to counter China, RFK Jr. says
3. After Makary's exit, FDA is giving CRL recipients another chance
4. Regenxbio to resubmit Hunter syndrome gene therapy as FDA rare disease about-face continues
5. IRA's $2,000 out-of-pocket cap helped Medicare patients access expensive drugs, study finds
6. FDA vaccine advisors back Moderna’s flu vaccine, bucking past FDA leadership
7. FDA warns telehealth companies over compounded GLP-1s
Zachary Brennan
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Since it was created in 1984, the FDA's 505(b)(2) pathway has been crucial in allowing pharma companies to win new drug approvals while still relying on prior safety or efficacy data. Now, chatter is swirling about creating the same sort of pathway but for biologics. Such a pathway could provide a new avenue for biologics approvals and potentially alleviate some of the pressure on biosimilar developers, which unlike their generic drug peers, can spend hundreds of millions of dollars on development and still struggle to gain market share. Hear more about this? Send me an email at zachary@endpointsnews.com.

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Zachary Brennan
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by Anna Brown

Amid Ger­many's on­go­ing re­view of its health­care spend­ing, the US gov­ern­ment has start­ed a trade in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the Eu­ro­pean coun­try's drug pric­ing sys­tem.

The in­ves­ti­ga­tion...

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HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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by Max Bayer

The Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion is re­spond­ing to a drum­beat of calls from the biotech and phar­ma in­dus­tries to mod­ern­ize and ex­pe­dite clin­i­cal tri­als with a sweep­ing...

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by Zachary Brennan

Did you re­ceive a com­plete re­sponse let­ter in the past year? Now may be the time for a re­sub­mis­sion.

In the wake of FDA Com­mis­sion­er...

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Curran Simpson, Regenxbio CEO (Brian Benton Photography)
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by Lei Lei Wu

Re­genxbio said that it plans to re­sub­mit its Hunter syn­drome gene ther­a­py fol­low­ing an­oth­er ap­par­ent walk back by the FDA af­ter lead­er­ship de­par­tures.

Ac­cord­ing to...

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by Zachary Brennan

Med­ica­tion us­age, par­tic­u­lar­ly for the most ex­pen­sive drugs, in­creased sig­nif­i­cant­ly short­ly af­ter the Medicare an­nu­al out-of-pock­et cost cap took ef­fect in Jan­u­ary 2025, a study...

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by Max Bayer

Every mem­ber of a vac­cine ad­vi­so­ry pan­el for the FDA vot­ed in fa­vor of Mod­er­na’s flu vac­cine, af­ter the prod­uct faced road­blocks from pre­vi­ous agency...

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by Shelby Livingston

The FDA has is­sued a new batch of warn­ing let­ters to 25 tele­health com­pa­nies, ac­cus­ing them of mak­ing false and mis­lead­ing claims in their mar­ket­ing...

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