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Heading into the first week after Memorial Day, which in the U.S. marks the typical beginning of summer, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has a number of drug approvals on the calendar. Here’s a look.
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“Today’s approval of Kynmobi advances treatment options for people with Parkinson’s disease who experience OFF episodes and the associated disruption of everyday activities,” said Antony Loebel, Sunovion’s president and chief executive officer.
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The U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) paid more than $1 billion to support the development, production and delivery of the vaccine beginning this fall.
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Clovis Oncology’s Rubraca remained the only PARP inhibitor approved for prostate cancer for only a handful of days. Today, that medication is joined by AstraZeneca’s and Merck’s powerhouse PARP inhibitor, Lynparza.
As part of the agreement, Phlow will help build the United States’ first Strategic Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients Reserve, a long-term, national stockpile to secure key ingredients used to manufacture the most essential medicines in the United States.
Research conducted under the collaboration will support FDA objectives to explore the natural history of the disease, as well as treatment and diagnostic patterns through the use of relevant and new data sources.
Expected to launch in June or July, the study plans to test as many as 325,000 people to learn how the SARS-CoV-2 virus is spreading nationally, according to Reuters, reporting before the official announcement.
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