Approvals
Late Thursday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a new therapy to treat a rare mutation in patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumors.
Merck’s checkpoint inhibitor Keytruda (pembrolizumab) continues moving toward the projections of becoming the world’s best-selling drug.
The company said Fiasp is the “first and only fast-acting mealtime insulin injection that does not have a pre-meal dosing recommendation.”
AstraZeneca and Merck are closing out 2019 on a high note with another approval for its PARP inhibitor Lynparza.
The clinical trials the approval is based on suggested the drug was effective for treating primary insomnia but may also be effective for insomnia associated with other diseases, such as depression.
Specifically, it was approved for adults with unresectable or metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer who have had two or more previous anti-HER2-based treatments in the metastatic setting.
The FDA issued a Complete Response Letter for its combination treatment of cabotegravir and rilpivirine.
Looking back over the past year and even decade, STAT News takes a look back at the best drugs approved over the past 10 years in its weekly Readout podcast.
Moving into the holidays and the fast-approaching end of the year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) got busy wrapping up a number of to-do items. Here’s a look.
With the latest approval, Xtandi, an androgen receptor inhibitor, is now the only oral treatment approved by the FDA for three distinct types of advanced prostate cancer – non-metastatic and metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) and mCSPC.
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