Approvals
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Genentech’s Tecentriq plus chemotherapy as a first-line treatment of metastatic non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer.
Previously, Toujeo was approved only for adults aged 18 years and older.
SK Life Science, Inc. Receives US FDA Approval for cenobamate tablets for the Treatment of Partial-Onset Seizures in Adults with Epilepsy
First and only FDA-approved sickle hemoglobin polymerization inhibitor, a new class of therapy
Ted W. Love, president and chief executive officer of GBT, called the approval of Oxbryta a major milestone for the company and for patients with sickle cell disease.
Shares of specialty pharmacy company Aquestive Therapeutics are up more than 18% in premarket trading following a late Friday afternoon approval from the U.S. FDA for Exservan, a treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
The latest approval for Calquence, a Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitor, was granted under the FDA’s Real-Time Oncology Review and newly established Project Orbis programs.
The approval marks the first time a Korean company independently brought a drug from discovery to FDA approval.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Alnylam Pharmaceuticals’ Givlaari (givosiran) for acute hepatic porphyria.
AbbVie’s blockbuster drug Humira just got another challenger to its share of the market in the United States when its patent expires in 2023.
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