$ZLCS news Critical Drugs Deemed to Offer Socie
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Critical Drugs Deemed to Offer Societal Benefit Could See Fast FDA Approval Process
The Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg has told scientific advisers that the FDA is considering a faster pathway for obesity treatments, life-saving antibiotics and other drugs deemed to offer societal benefit. The Paragon Report examines investing opportunities in the Biotech Industry and provides equity research on Threshold Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: THLD) and Zalicus Inc. (NASDAQ: ZLCS).
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Under the new pathway the FDA would allow developers of such drugs to conduct smaller, faster clinical trial, and provide a "special medical use" label which would allow doctors to administer drugs to patients with critical need. Hamburg has said that the FDA needs to take into account the needs people with deadly or debilitating diseases that may be willing to take on the risks of unproven drugs.
"A pathway that would allow products to come to market faster but would ensure they were used only in patients where there was an applicable risk-benefit situation would be good," said Pew Health Group's Allan Coukell, deputy director of medical programs. "It would be good for developers, for companies and it would be good for public health."
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Threshold is a biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of drugs targeting Tumor Hypoxia, the low oxygen condition found in microenvironments of most solid tumors as well as the bone marrows of some hematologic malignancies. The company recently announced an agreement with the FDA on a Special Protocol Assesment for a Phase 3 randomized trial of TH-302 in patients with pancreatic cancer.
Zalicus is a biopharmaceutical company that discovers and develops novel treatments for patients suffering from pain and immuno-inflammatory diseases. The company last month reported top line results from its Phase 2b clinical trial of Synavive in rheumatoid arthritis.
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