article
European Pharmaceutical Review Issue 4 2024
European Pharmaceutical Review Issue 4 includes articles on regulation, bioproduction, environmental monitoring, packaging and drug delivery.
List view / Grid view
Medicine and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)
news
Alzheimer’s drug milestone “bittersweet” for certain patients
The first new dementia medicine to be licensed in over two decades shows for first time, that the course of Alzheimer disease can be modified and slow cognitive decline.
news
Generic HIV raltegravir medicines approved
The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)’s novel approval means that certain patients with HIV have more options for treatment.
news
UK clinical trial regulation may support haemophilia treatment access
The new Notification scheme by the MHRA helps to reduce the time it takes for the lowest-risk clinical trials to commence, while maintaining patient safety.
news
MHRA approves new medicine formulations for HIV prevention
The authorised formulations are a tablet and a long-acting injection used for preventing sexually transmitted HIV-1 infection (pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).
news
MHRA publishes strategy on AI regulation
Incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) into the MHRA’s regulatory processes could help the agency focus on key priorities such as innovation.
news
Medical device manufacturers must remain “vigilant” to ensure data integrity of premarket submissions
With the integrity of a greater number of third-party-generated data called into question, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is unable to rely on the data to grant marketing authorisation, the agency asserts.
news
New antibody drug formulation wins novel MHRA approval
A new formulation of an antibody drug has been authorised via a process from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) that enables “considerably shorter” approval timelines.
news
MHRA Chief Executive to step down
During Dame June Raine’s five-year tenure as Chief Executive, MHRA delivered regulation facilitating key innovations in gene therapy and the world’s first COVID vaccine.
news
MHRA approves ‘safer’ medicine alternative for rare disease
A new drug has been approved in the UK as a safer alternative to corticosteroids to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD).
article
Microbiome innovation: have we forgotten the basics?
Here, Chrysi Sergaki from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), UK, explores how innovators and regulators can navigate the challenges affecting the development and regulation of microbiome therapeutics to bring safe and efficacious therapies to patients as soon as possible.
news
MHRA authorisation is first endocrine therapy innovation in decades
A new breast cancer treatment that reduced the risk of progression or death by 45 percent compared to standard of care in a Phase III trial, has been authorised by the UK Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
news
FDA approves first cell-based gene therapies for sickle cell disease
The US FDA has approved Vertex’s Casgevy and bluebird bio’s Lyfgenia, for one-time treatment of sickle cell disease in patients 12 years and older.
news
Vertex scores European cystic fibrosis medicine approval
Following a milestone approval by the European Commission in July 2023, Vertex Pharmaceuticals has been granted a label expansion for its cystic fibrosis medicine KAFTRIO® (ivacaftor/tezacaftor/elexacaftor) with ivacaftor.
news
First CRISPR-based gene-editing therapy authorised
The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has granted a world-first regulatory authorisation to a medicine based on Nobel Prize-winning technology.
