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FDA Approvals Roundup: Kloxxado, Farxiga, Ferriprox

The Pharma Data

Ferriprox was originally approved in 2011 as a therapy for patients with transfusional iron overload due to thalassemia syndromes for whom chelation therapy was not adequate. . The approval was based on results in a prespecified interim analysis of the first 264 patients of the ongoing KEYNOTE-811 trial. blind, placebo?controlled

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

The Pharma Data

BENLYSTA is the first medicine approved to treat systemic lupus and adults with active lupus nephritis, an important treatment advance for patients with this incurable autoimmune disease,” said GSK Chief Scientific Officer and President of R&D Dr. Hal Barron. The FDA approval of Klisyri is a significant milestone for Athenex.

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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

The FDA first approved Benlysta for lupus in 2011. Last year, GSK announced positive results from a two-year clinical trial involving several hundred people with active lupus nephritis treated with Benlysta. .” . Benlysta is a human monoclonal antibody sold by GSK.

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No Sleep ‘Til District Court: Jazz Sues FDA Over Sodium Oxybate Clinical Superiority Determination

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

Approximately six weeks after FDA approved Lumryz and issued its clinical superiority decision , Jazz filed a Complaint against FDA in the District Court of D.C. Jazz believes that FDA precedent precludes that position and thus FDA departed from established policy, which FDA denied ever existed.

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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.