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The rise of GLP-1 drugs: Transforming weight loss treatment

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Originally developed in the 1970s to treat diabetes, these drugs—such as Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro—have become headline-makers for their ability to induce significant weight loss. Understanding GLP-1 drugs GLP-1, or glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor modulators, mimic natural hormones that regulate insulin and appetite.

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Radical Transparency or Radical Redundancy? FDA Publishes 200+ Complete Response Letters, Most of Which Are Already Public

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

Butler — In a move FDA is calling “radical transparency,” the Agency announced on July 10, 2025 that it has published 200+ Complete Response Letters (CRLs) issued in response to marketing applications for drugs and biologics on its openFDA database.

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What FDA’s Newest Gene Therapy Approval Tells Us About Durability: How Long is Long Enough?

FDA Law Blog: Drug Discovery

This product was developed by uniQure prior to being licensed to CSL Behring. Of course, neither “cure” nor permanency are the bar for FDA to find that a new drug is effective; simply because there is the potential for something to be a “cure” or offer permanent/near-permanent effects does not mean it should be required to be such.

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Similarity Search and Some Cool Pandas Tricks

Practical Cheminformatics

In this example, we'll be using the chemfp package by Andrew Dalke. Chemfp is a great package. If you're using it for production drug discovery, you should buy a license. Chemfp has both free and paid tiers. With the free tier, you can perform similarity searches on smaller datasets, like the one we're using here.

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Do You Have a Combination Product, and Is It Drug-led or Device-led? Early Regulatory Insights

The Premier Consulting Blog

Determining if you have a combination product The high-level definition of combination product seems straightforward: a product with at least two constituent parts, such as: Drug/biologic (e.g., therapeutic drug/monoclonal antibody) Drug/device (e.g., insulin injector pen) Multiple drugs/device (e.g.,

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Steep FY2025 PDUFA Fee Increase: Ways to Reduce the Full Fee Rate for Repurposed Drugs

The Premier Consulting Blog

On July 31, 2024, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Fiscal Year 2025 (FY2025) Prescription Drug User Fee Amendments of 2022 (PDUFA VII) fee rates for the review of human drug and biological product applications along with prescription drug program fees.

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Article EMA Thank You New MHRA Windsor Framework documents guide post-Brexit flow of medicines for U.K., Great Britain, and the E.U.

Agency IQ

These features should not be included on outer packaging or immediate packaging, if there is no outer packaging. Last week, the MHRA provided a roadmap for upcoming labeling requirements, based on license type The Windsor Framework allows the MHRA to approve medicines for U.K. wide license: The requirements of the E.U.