While the size of the market is enormous, drug development and treatments for women’s health care still lag behind what is offered for men. There has been a renaissance in the past few years, however, led by investors and companies that have wrestled with determining exactly what encompasses women’s health and how to meet its challenges.
Atossa Therapeutics Inc. moved a step closer in its efforts to develop a preventative approach to breast cancer, with top-line data from a phase II study showing (Z)-endoxifen significantly reduced mammographic breast density, while demonstrating a good tolerability profile.
Disc Medicine Inc. found itself after an end-of-phase II meeting with the U.S. FDA in what Wainwright analyst Douglas Tsao called a “best-case scenario” regarding the path forward for bitopertin in erythropoietic protoporphyria (EPP).
For the first time, Australians have access to CSL Inc.’s Vazkepa (icosapent ethyl/Vascepa) for managing cardiovascular disease more than a decade after the drug was first approved in the U.S.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Bioarctic, Eli Lilly, Feliqs, Lexicon, Verastem.
Biopharma happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Davi Farmaceutica, Formosa, Immpact, Lyell Immunopharma.