Here are the top 5 biosimilar articles for the week of April 3, 2023.
Hi, I’m Justina Petrullo for The Center for Biosimilars®, your resource for clinical, regulatory, business, and policy news in the rapidly changing world of biosimilars.
Here are the top 5 biosimilar articles for the week of April 3rd, 2023.
Number 5: Sarfaraz K. Niazi, PhD, explained and analyzed the FDA's changes for the Biosimilar User Fee Act (BsUFA) meetings and how they influence the efficiency of the biosimilar approval process in the latest installment of his bimonthly column.
Number 4: Newfoundland and Labrador was the latest Canadian province to implement a biosimilar switching policy, following in the footsteps of Ontario and 7 other jurisdictions.
Number 3: Yukon, 1 of 3 Canadian territories, announced that it will implement a biosimilars switching policy, following Newfoundland and Labrador’s announcement to move forward with a similar policy earlier this week.
Number 2: Eli Lilly and Company has launched its insulin glargine biosimilar, Rezvoglar (insulin glargine-aglr), on the US market, making it the second interchangeable insulin biosimilar to become commercially available to American patients with diabetes.
Number 1: The Increasing Access to Biosimilars Act of 2023 (HR 1352), a bill that would direct HHS to establish a demonstration project within Medicare that would establish a shared savings model for biosimilars, was introduced to the House of Representatives.
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