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QUETIAPINE FUMARATE — Approved Sponsor: ACCORD HLTHCARE · Application type: SUPPL · Date: 20230919 · Priority: STANDARD
METHYLPHENIDATE HYDROCHLORIDE — Approved Sponsor: IMPAX LABS INC · Application type: SUPPL · Date: 20260421 · Priority: STANDARD
LEVETIRACETAM — Approved Sponsor: STRIDES PHARMA · Application type: SUPPL · Date: 20260421 · Priority: STANDARD
Fagron Compounding Services [Class II] — 20260415 Product: Vancomycin HCI, 1.5 grams added to 250 mL, 0.9% Sodium Chloride Injection USP, Fagron Sterile Servic Reason: Lack of Assurance of Sterility; blue Break-Off-Part could detach from the administration port
Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC [Class II] — 20260415 Product: 0.9% Sodium Chloride Injection, USP, (2,250 mg per 250 mL) (9 mg per mL) 250 mL in a 250 mL freeflex Reason: Lack of Assurance of Sterility
Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC [Class II] — 20260415 Product: 0.45% Sodium Chloride Injection, USP, 1.125 grams per 250 mL (4.5 mg per mL), 250 mL in a 250 mL fre Reason: Lack of Assurance of Sterility
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc [Class II] — 20260415 Product: Clonidine Transdermal System, USP, 0.2 mg/day, supplied in cartons of 4 Systems and 4 Adhesive Cover Reason: CGMP Deviations: use of an unapproved raw material
Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC [Class II] — 20260415 Product: 0.9% Sodium Chloride Injection, USP 900 mg per 100 mL (9 mg per mL) 500 mL in a Single Dose freeflex Reason: Lack of Assurance of Sterility
Sijie Li, Shanda Li, Haowei Lin · 2026-04-24 · cs.LG
Scaling laws are used to plan multi-million-dollar training runs, but fitting those laws can itself cost millions. In modern large-scale workflows, assembling a sufficiently informative set of pilot experiments is already a major budget-allocation problem rather than a routine preprocessing step. We formulate scaling-law fitting as budget-aware seq
Calvin Tsay · 2026-04-24 · math.OC · cs.LG
ReLU neural networks trained as surrogate models can be embedded exactly in mixed-integer linear programs (MILPs), enabling global optimization over the learned function. The tractability of the resulting MILP depends on structural properties of the network, i.e., the number of binary variables in associated formulations and the tightness of the co
Hillary Mutisya, John Mugane · 2026-04-24 · cs.LG · cs.CL
We investigate whether neural models trained exclusively on modern morphological data can recover cross-lingual lexical structure consistent with historical reconstruction. Using BantuMorph v7, a transformer over Bantu morphological paradigms, we analyze 14 Eastern and Southern Bantu languages, extract encoder embeddings for their noun and verb lem
Hillary Mutisya, John Mugane · 2026-04-24 · cs.LG · cs.CL
We present a method for discovering morphological features in low-resource Bantu languages by combining cross-lingual transfer learning with unsupervised clustering. Applied to Giriama (nyf), a language with only 91 labeled paradigms, our pipeline discovers noun class assignments for 2,455 words and identifies two previously undocumented morphologi
Rajinder Sandhu, Di Mu, Cheng Chang · 2026-04-24 · cs.IR · cs.AI
Dense vector retrieval is the practical backbone of Retrieval- Augmented Generation (RAG), but similarity search can suffer from precision limitations. Conversely, utility-based approaches leveraging LLM re-ranking often achieve superior performance but are computationally prohibitive and prone to noise inherent in perplexity estimation. We propose
Victoria Ribeiro Rodrigues, Paul W. Davenport, Nicholas J. Napoli · 2026-04-24 · eess.SP · cs.LG
Respiratory airflow signals provide critical insight into breathing mechanics, yet conventional analysis methods remain limited in their ability to characterize the internal structure of individual breaths. Traditional approaches treat airflow as a quasi-periodic signal and rely on global descriptors such as tidal volume or peak flow, obscuring sub
Yuchen Xiong, Swee Keong Yeap, Zhen Hong Ban · 2026-04-24 · cs.LG
Graph neural networks achieve strong node-classification accuracy, but their learned message passing entangles ego attributes, neighborhood smoothing, high-pass graph differences, class geometry, and classifier boundaries in an opaque representation. This obscures why a node is classified and what feature-level graph-learning mechanisms a dataset r
Tai Xuan Tan, Alexander Mitsos, Eike Cramer · 2026-04-24 · cs.LG
Batch processes are inherently transient and typically nonlinear, motivating nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC). However, adopting NMPC is hindered by the cost and unavailability of dynamic models. Thus, we propose to use Gaussian Processes (GP) in a model-learning NMPC scheme (GP-MLMPC) for batch processes. We initialize the GP-MLMPC using
STAT+: Intellia says CRISPR-based treatment for rare disease reduced swelling attacks in pivotal trial (STAT News) With good results from Intellia, the CRISPR field faces the question: How attractive will the one-and-done approach be to patients and doctors?
STAT+: Oruka’s long-acting psoriasis therapy posts strong results in mid-stage study (STAT News) A long-acting injectable treatment for plaque psoriasis helped 63% of patients achieve complete skin clearance in a clinical trial, its maker, Oruka Therapeutics, reported.
STAT+: Veradermics’ hair loss drug succeeds in late-stage trial (STAT News) The company is one of the most advanced players in the hair loss field, which has seen a surge of investor enthusiasm.
STAT+: Zap in a cap: How one neurotech startup is using a hat to treat depression (STAT News) FDA approved a request from Motif Neurotech, to start an initial feasibility trial to test a brain implant to treat depression.
NIH-funded research lags in reporting sex differences, new study finds (STAT News) Fewer than half of papers published by NIH-funded researchers analyze or report their data by sex, a new study found.
What happened to Covid? (STAT News) The thinking about what risk Covid poses — or doesn't pose — has shifted in recent years. What does it mean for you?
Opinion: Patients seeking mental health treatment are not commodities (STAT News) Legal agreements that directly shape access to care remain invisible to the very people whose lives they govern.
Opinion: I’m a fourth-year med student, but I only learned one historical example of medical racism (STAT News) Modern randomized controlled trials often rely on marginalized populations abroad.
STAT+: Doctor, wife of acting U.S. attorney general, appointed to NIH advisory council (STAT News) An integrative medicine doctor who is the wife of the acting U.S. attorney general has been named as a member to one of the advisory councils that provides critical funding…
Nancy Cox, a CDC veteran and a stalwart in global flu research, dies at 77 (STAT News) Nancy Cox, a CDC veteran who for decades was a global leader in influenza research, has died at 77.
Sanofi MS drug rejected in US gets an endorsement in Europe (BioPharma Dive) Tolebrutinib, which the FDA recently turned back due to safety concerns, received a positive recommendation that positions the therapy for its first regulatory approval.
Lilly tumbles on Foundayo’s shaky week; FDA to issue vouchers for psychedelics (BioPharma Dive) Lilly shares dipped, and Novo’s climbed, as Foundayo’s early trajectory diverged from that of oral Wegovy. Elsewhere, Regeneron inked a drug price deal and two companies announced leadership changes.
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