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A more detailed review of data by the FDA showed that GLP-1 drugs do not increase the risk of suicidal ideation or behavior.
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After a tumultuous year, experts call for stability while anticipating the first fruits of policies intended to expedite approvals for rare disease drugs.
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Policy initiatives have come fast and furious at the FDA this year. While guidances on rare diseases and vaccines have consumed most of the ink, policy shifts aimed at improving FDA efficiencies and reshoring U.S. manufacturing also got some attention. Here, BioSpace rounds up more than a dozen initiatives relevant to the biopharma industry.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Eli Lilly’s Reyvow (lasmiditan) for the acute treatment of migraines.
Scenesse is an under-the-skin implant. The drug is the company’s only approved product.
The approval of Beovu was based on findings from the Phase III HAWK and HARRIER clinical trials, in which Novartis’ drug demonstrated non-inferiority versus Eylea in mean change in best-corrected visual acuity at 48 weeks.
The approval was based on data from the Phase III GRECO clinical trial and the Phase I AMES trial.
The only other drug currently approved in the U.S. for HIV PrEP is Gilead’s Truvada (emtricitabine 200 mg/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate 300 mg).
Janssen’s Invokana snagged another regulatory approval to reduce the risk of end-stage kidney disease, cardiovascular death and worsening of kidney function in adults with type 2 diabetes and diabetic kidney disease.
The FDA’s latest approval for Darzalex is based on results from the Phase III CASSIOPEIA trial that showed the addition of Darzalex to VTd before and after ASCT resulted in deeper responses in patients with the blood cancer.
AbbVie’s Mayvret won expanded approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to shorten the one-daily treatment duration from 12 to eight weeks in treatment-naïve hepatitis C patients without cirrhosis and with compensated cirrhosis.
Bavarian Nordic A/S announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved JYNNEOS™ for prevention of smallpox and monkeypox disease in adults 18 years of age and older determined to be at high risk for smallpox or monkeypox infection.
US FDA 510(k) clearance paves the way for an innovative orthopedic product that offers the potential to improve bone apposition and, as a consequence, patient outcomes 1-3