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Alvotech announced that its facility in Iceland received a form 483 from the FDA with only one observation.  The inspection started on 10 January 2024 and has concluded.  Alvotech said it will provide a response to the FDA in the coming days, and that the observation is “re...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it is adding a Boxed Warning to the prescribing information for Amgen’s Prolia® (denosumab) about the significant risk of developing severe hypocalcemia (very low blood calcium levels) in patients with advanced chroni...

Korea Biomedical Review reported that CanariaBio received a recommendation from Korea’s Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) that it stop its global phase III clinical trials of oregovomab in ovarian cancer patients, but continue to monitor overall survival.  The recomme...

On 18 January 2024, a phase 3 study, published in The Lancet Rheumatology, sponsored by Bio-Thera and Biogen concluded that BAT1806 (tocilizumab biosimilar) was equivalent in efficacy, safety, immunogenicity, and pharmacokinetic in comparison to Roche’s RoActemra®(tocilizum...

Bayer announced that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) granted market authorisation (MA) for Eylea® 8 mg (aflibercept) to treat neovascular (wet) age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) and diabetic macular oedema (DMO).  The approval was based on s...

On 17 January 2024 Samsung Bioepis released its fourth US Biosimilar Market Report.  The quarterly report details recent prices of US-launched biosimilars, and market share and price trends.  The report covers the US-approved biosimilars on 14 INNs, of which 45 have been ap...

Business Korea reported that Celltrion launched its 80mg dose of Yuflyma®, biosimilar to AbbVie’s Humira® (adalimumab), in the US on 17 January 2024.  It is the same high-concentration (100mg/mL) formulation as the 40mg dosage form already available in the US.  Celltrion wi...

The Hindu reported that Aurobindo Pharma subsidiary CuraTeQ Biologics has received a recommendation for marketing authorisation for its trastuzumab (biosimilar to Genentech’s Herceptin®) from India’s  Subject Experts Committee of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organizat...

A study evaluating results from a Phase 3, randomised, double blind trial sponsored by Samsung Bioepis was published on 16 January 2023 in the journal, Frontiers in Pharmacology. The results show that Samsung Bioepis’ SB8 (bevacizumab biosimilar) had a comparable efficacy t...