The FDA has issued a complete response letter to Mallinckrodt’s jaundice drug stannsoporfin. Mallinckrodt plans to talk to the FDA in the coming months before deciding the fate of a drug it acquired in an $80 million buyout last year.
An FDA advisory committee voted on Thursday to recommend approval of Paratek’s new antibiotic, omadacycline, for the treatment of acute bacterial skin infections and community-acquired bacterial pneumonia (CABP).
Paratek Pharmaceuticals’ first drug, and the first in a new class of broad-spectrum antibiotics called aminomethylcyclines, has shown to be noninferior to current regimens for bacterial pneumonia and skin infections, FDA reviewers wrote ahead of an Aug. 8