Roche has secured marketing authorization from the European Commission (EC) for its Tecentriq (atezolizumab) in combination with Avastin (bevacizumab) and chemotherapy for initial treatment of people with a specific type of metastatic lung cancer.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in the UK is seeking additional data on Amgen’s Blincyto (blinatumomab) to treat adults with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL).
The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson has secured approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Spravato (esketamine) CIII nasal spray for adults with treatment-resistant depression (TRD).
Celgene announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted its new drug application (NDA) for fedratinib and granted a Priority Review.
The European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has recommended Pfizer’s Lorviqua (lorlatinib) to treat adult patients with anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-positive advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
Roche announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Herceptin Hylecta (trastuzumab and hyaluronidase-oysk) for subcutaneous (under the skin) injection to treat certain people with HER2-positive early breast cancer (node-positive, or node-negative and ER/PR-negative or with one high-risk feature) in combination with chemotherapy and HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer in combination with paclitaxel or alone in people who have received one or more chemotherapy regimens for metastatic disease.
AstraZeneca has secured expanded approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Farxiga (dapagliflozin) and Xigduo XR (dapagliflozin and metformin HCl extended-release) to treat type 2 diabetes (T2D) and moderate renal impairment.
Alexion Pharmaceuticals announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for review a supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) for the use of SOLIRIS (eculizumab), the company’s first C5 complement inhibitor, as a treatment for patients with neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) who have anti-aquaporin-4 (AQP4) auto antibodies.
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Israel-based Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries have reached a global settlement to resolve three separate federal court antitrust lawsuits involving the latter’s subsidiaries.
Innovation Pharmaceuticals said that the US Patent & Trademark Office has issued a new patent to the company for the treatment of oral mucositis.
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