Approvals
Thursday, a committee of advisors for the CDC voted unanimously for children and teens, ages six to 17 to receive Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine.
The FDA’s decision is based on positive results from two induction and one maintenance clinical study of AbbVie’s Skyrizi for Crohn’s disease.
VBI Vaccines and Hepion Pharmaceuticals have received Orphan Drug Designations from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for their experimental cancer drugs.
Friday morning, the FDA granted Emergency Use Authorization to both Moderna’s and Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccines for use in children ages 6 months to 4 years old.
The FDA approved Rhythm Pharmaceutical’s Imcivree (setmelanotide) for patients with Bardet-Biedl syndrome.
A recent study found that over a span of ten years, the FDA approved cancer drugs approximately eight months earlier than the same drugs were greenlit by the European Commission (EC).
The FDA has approved Alnylam Pharmaceuticals’ Amvuttra (vutrisiran) for the treatment of hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis (hATTR) with polyneuropathy in adults.
Eli Lilly’s Olumiant (baricitinib) received approval from the FDA for the treatment of severe alopecia areata, making it the first systemic treatment for adults living with the disease.
ION582 is uniquely formulated using RNA technology to provide relief to patients with Angelman syndrome, a rare disorder for which limited treatment options are available.
The House of Representatives voted on a bill that would give the U.S. Food and Drug Administration more power to ensure biopharma companies run large follow-up trials to confirm accelerated approvals.
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