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Tokyo-based Astellas Pharma announced that its roxadustat met its primary endpoints in the Phase III ALPS clinical trial in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients with anemia not on dialysis. The focus of the drug is on anemia.
Clovis Oncology will pay more than $20 million in penalties to settle charges that Chief Executive Officer Patrick Mahaffy and its former Chief Financial Officer Erle Mast misleading investors about the company’s lung cancer treatment leading up to a public offering of stock.
AstraZeneca released positive results from the BORA Phase III extension clinical trial of Fasenra (benralizumab) as an add-on maintenance therapy in patients with severe eosinophilic asthma that had already completed either the SIROCCO or CALIMA Phase III trials.
A recent survey by the Pew Research Center found that 57 percent of Americans surveyed thought it was appropriate to use genetically engineered animals to grow organs for human transplants.
Novo Nordisk is laying off 400 staffers so it can shift funds toward biological and technological innovation.
Following a setback in a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) clinical trial in August, AstraZeneca unveiled data from a separate trial on Sunday that showed its triple combination therapy PT010 outperformed its dual-therapy rivals eight of nine times.
AstraZeneca and its research-and-development arm, MedImmune, announced that the U.S. FDA approved Lumoxiti (moxetumomab pasudotox-tdfk) for adults with relapsed or refractory hairy cell leukemia (HCL) who have had at least two previous systemic therapies, including with a purine nucleoside analog.
Days after receiving a Complete Response Letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Nucala (mepolizumab) as an add-on COPD treatment, GlaxoSmithKline released data that showed the same medication was a superior treatment in severe eosinophilic asthma in patients with similar blood eosinophil counts.
Let’s take a look at who made a splash in the pharma and biotech world the past week.
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