As it requested, the U.S. FDA got an earful April 25 as people with long COVID and their caregivers shared their experiences with the condition that has no approved, or even authorized, treatment and is not that well understood, given its range of symptoms that vary from person to person.
Daiichi Sankyo Co Ltd. has experienced yet another setback with its quizartinib NDA submission, as the U.S. FDA has now extended the review period by three months to July 24, 2023, to allow additional time to review requested updates to the proposed Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies.
Bridge Biotherapeutics Inc. has received FDA clearance to proceed with a first-in-human study of BBT-207, a potential broad-spectrum fourth-generation epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) for the treatment of non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
Daiichi Sankyo Co Ltd. has experienced yet another setback with its quizartinib NDA submission, as the U.S. FDA has now extended the review period by three months to July 24, 2023, to allow additional time to review requested updates to the proposed Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies. No additional efficacy or safety data has been requested.
Danco Laboratories LLC’s Mifeprex (mifepristone) and Genbiopro Inc.’s generic got another temporary reprieve April 19 from a court order that would tighten access to the abortion drug.
The latest U.S. FDA emergency use authorizations to fall by the wayside, as COVID-19 continues to evolve, are the ones for the first Moderna Inc. and Pfizer Inc.-Biontech SE’s mRNA vaccines.
As expected, the serotonin-dopamine modulator Rexulti (brexpiprazole) from Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. and H. Lundbeck A/S for agitation in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) dementia, found favor April 14 at the joint meeting of the U.S. FDA’s Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee (adcom) and the Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee.
Hanchorbio Inc. has received IND clearance by the FDA to initiate a clinical trial of HCB-101, for the treatment of patients with advanced solid tumors or relapsed and refractory non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL).
Providing a much-needed lift to struggling Gamida Cell Ltd., the U.S. FDA has approved the firm’s advanced cell therapy Omisirge (omidubicel-onlv) to reduce the risk of infection in patients with hematologic malignancies aged 12 years and older who are scheduled to have umbilical cord blood transplantation.
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