Gilead's remdesivir is first drug fully approved by FDA to treat COVID-19. Roche and Atea team up on an investigational direct acting antiviral while Moderna reaches the 30,000-patient enrollment target for its Phase III COVE study of the company's investigational mRNA vaccine. 

Court finds US FDA did not impede Catalyst orphan exclusivity for Firdapse as it approved different indication for competing product. Biogen loses 10-year patent battle against competing multiple sclerosis drug makers.

As agency observers wonder whether and how political considerations will impact the timing of a COVID-19 vaccine approval or authorization, the Pink Sheet looks at instances through the years where agency staffers found themselves operating under precedents with which they disagreed or that didn’t work out as expected.

Regulators in the US have approved Gavreto for metastatic rearranged during transfection (RET) fusion-positive non-small cell lung cancer, setting the stage for a head-to-head battle for market share with Eli Lilly's Retevmo.