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FDA Approvals Roundup: Kloxxado, Farxiga, Ferriprox

The Pharma Data

Farxiga use expanded for reducing risks in patients with chronic kidney disease. Approval of the sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor was based on efficacy findings in the interventional, multicenter, randomized Dapa-CKD study. controlled trial had not received previous systemic therapy for metastatic disease.

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FDA Approvals: Therapies for Lupus, MS, Cancer and a Genomic Alteration in Pigs

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Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved belimumab (Benlysta®), the first-ever treatment for adults with lupus nephritis (LN) who are currently receiving standard therapy. LN, or inflammation of the kidneys, is a common system of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), one of the most prevalent autoimmune diseases.

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International Women’s Day: Female life science leaders

Drug Discovery World

Linda Powers, CEO, Northwest Biotherapeutics Powers has served as the Chairman of NW Bio since 2007, and as CEO since 2011. In 2023, the company revealed data from a Phase III trial which showed that its vaccine candidate DCVax-L more than doubled overall survival in glioblastoma patients. Dr Loubna Bouarfa, Founder and CEO, OKRA.ai

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Lupus Foundation of America Sees Big Win with FDA Approval of Benlysta for Lupus Nephritis

The Pharma Data

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Benlysta to treat lupus nephritis (lupus-related kidney disease) in adults. The approval is for both the intravenous and subcutaneous formulations. The FDA first approved Benlysta for lupus in 2011. ” Dr. Susan M.

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Day Zero Antivirals for Future Pandemics

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One large-scale clinical trial found that it only reduces the relative risk of death by about ten percent in hospitalized patients. Prophylactics, similar to vaccines, are taken before we get sick, so they slow viral growth during the early “viral phase” of disease. Nor was remdesivir as effective as people hoped.

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Analysis Life Sciences Thank You FDA’s nonprescription advisors find no efficacy for phenylephrine

Agency IQ

Until recently, the FDA relied on a monograph process through which firms could bring OTC drugs to market without FDA approval so long as it adhered to pre-set terms under the monograph. Finally, the committee came up with a list of recommendations for the structure of additional trials, listed in the meeting minutes.

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US FDA approves Jardiance® (empagliflozin) to treat adults with heart failure regardless of left ventricular ejection fraction

The Pharma Data

Jardiance is the first and only heart failure therapy to demonstrate a statistically significant risk reduction in cardiovascular death or hospitalization for heart failure, regardless of ejection fraction FDA approval marks a significant breakthrough for the approximately 3 million adults in the U.S. and Europe.