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Prior to the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA), median approval times of New Drug Applications ranged between 21 and 29 months. [2] The Prescription Drug User Fee Act was first passed in 1992 to facilitate the funding of the Food and Drug Administration while ensuring a more predictable timetable for drug approvals. [3]
A 2002 U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found that PDUFA funds allowed the FDA to increase the number of new drug reviewers by 77 percent in the first eight years of the act, and the median approval time for non-priority new drugs dropped from 27 months to 14 months over the same period.
Drug Manufacturer Indication Crizotinib: PF Prism: ALK-positive systemic anaplastic large cell lymphoma: Trastuzumab deruxtecan: Daiichi Sankyo: HER2-positive gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma, previously treated with trastuzumab: Umbralisib: TG Therapeutics: marginal zone lymphoma, previously treated with an anti-CD20-based ...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a weight-loss drug to help sleep apnea, becoming the first drug to treat the disorder affecting millions of Americans. On Friday, the federal agency ...
In May, the Food and Drug Administration approved as many as 13 new drugs, higher than the eight approved in the same month last year.
More than 200,000 prescriptions for copies of Novo Nordisk's weight-loss drug Wegovy are getting filled by U.S. patients each month, an industry group told the U.S. drugs regulator in a letter ...
Under current Prescription Drug User Fee Act targets, the FDA aims to complete and act upon reviews of priority drugs within six months instead of the standard ten-month review period. Actual FDA review timelines, however, can be longer than the target PDUFA review periods, particularly for new products that haven't previously been approved for ...
Bad news: The 27 new drugs approved this year is a far cry from 2012's banner year for approvals, in which the Food and Drug Administration signed off on 39 drugs. Good news: While the quantity ...