A good measuring stick for the likely acceptance and use of the two recently FDA-approved obesity drugs Qsymia (phentermine/topiramate) and Belviq (lorcaserin hydrochloride) came at Obesity 2012, the annual Obesity Society conference held in San Antonio recently. Although only Qsymia is on the market, so far the consensus among the delegates at the conference appeared to be generally positive. Read More
When Halozyme Therapeutics Inc. received word that the FDA was issuing a complete response letter for HyQ, the news wasn't isolated to just the program that it's developing with Baxter International Inc. The FDA also put a temporary clinical hold on a subcutaneous version of ViroPharma Inc.'s Cinryze (C1 esterase inhibitor [human]). (See BioWorld Today, Aug. 3, 2012.) Read More
