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Analysts called the approval a much-needed win for Novo Nordisk, but warned that the company could struggle to grow sales once rival drugs come to market.
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Representatives of companies including AbbVie, Eli Lilly, Johnson & Johnson and Merck have voiced concerns about the FDA’s approach to pre-approval inspections.
With notable therapies from Biogen, Sarepta and MacroGenics failing to show efficacy in pivotal or confirmatory trials, experts question the use of biomarker evidence for approval while one former regulator insists that a “failed trial is not a failed drug.”
Coming up in the back half of December, the FDA will issue a verdict on Vanda Pharmaceuticals’ gastroparesis drug tradipitant, which it rejected last September, triggering a very public dispute with the company.
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The FDA has approved two of Phathom Pharmaceuticals’ products for bacterial illnesses in adults: Voquezna Triple Pak and Voquezna Dual Pak.
The FDA accepted Bayer’s supplemental New Drug Application for its proposed oral treatment for metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer.
Orphalan announced the FDA has granted full approval to Cuvrior (trientine tetrahydrochloride) for the treatment of Wilson’s Disease, a rare genetic disorder.
Hutchmed failed to secure FDA approval for its proposed drug for pancreatic cancer. The company will have to go through another trial if they want U.S. approval.
Notably, Qelbree is the first novel FDA approval of a novel non-stimulant treatment for ADHD in adults in 20 years.
Shares of Praxis Precision Medicines are falling after the company announced the FDA has placed a clinical hold on the company’s IND Application for its experimental epilepsy drug, Prax-222.
AbbVie is off to a strong start for 2022 driven by success from Skyrizi and Rinvoq, as well as the company’s neuroscience platform. Abbvie also won FDA approval for a new indication for Rinvoq.
The FDA approval was based on data from the Phase III Explorer-HCM trial that showed Bristol Myers Squibb’s Camzyos could decrease the heart’s contractility.
Finch Therapeutics has been given the green light to continue the Phase III Prism4 clinical trial, investigating the efficacy of CP101 in fighting recurrent C. difficile infections (CDI).