Roche has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted the company's supplemental biologics license application (sBLA) for Avastin (bevacizumab) in combination with chemotherapy (carboplatin and paclitaxel), followed by Avastin alone, for the front-line treatment of women with advanced ovarian cancer.
The UK High Court of Justice has given a decision in favor of Mylan and Synthon over their dispute concerning the patent of Teva Phamaceutical Industries’ multiple sclerosis (MS) treatment Copaxone which was ruled to be invalid due to obviousness.
Synlogic has secured orphan drug status from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for o SYNB1618 preclinical-stage drug candidate for the treatment of phenylketonuria (PKU).
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation (BTD) to Novartis’ Tafinlar (dabrafenib) in combination with Mekinist (trametinib) for the adjuvant treatment of patients with stage III melanoma with a BRAF V600 mutation after complete resection.
Janssen Biotech announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Simponi Aria (golimumab), the only fully-human anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha therapy administered via a 30-minute infusion, for the treatment of adults with active psoriatic arthritis (PsA) or active ankylosing spondylitis (AS).
GlaxoSmithKline’s (GSK) Shingrix (Zoster Vaccine Recombinant, Adjuvanted) vaccine has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the prevention of herpes zoster (shingles) in adults aged 50 years and over.
Kite Pharma’s chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR T) therapy Yescarta (axicabtagene ciloleucel) has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of relapsed or refractory large B-cell lymphoma in adult patients who had at least two lines of systemic therapy.
AstraZeneca and MedImmune announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted a supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) for Imfinzi (durvalumab) for the treatment of patients with locally advanced, unresectable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose disease has not progressed following platinum-based chemoradiation therapy.
Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for priority review its supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) for Opdivo (nivolumab) to treat patients with melanoma who are at high risk of disease recurrence following complete surgical resection.
A US federal judge has ruled four of Allergan’s patents over its dry eye medicine Restasis (Cyclosporine Ophthalmic Emulsion) 0.05% to be invalid for covering obvious ideas.
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