People who suffer from the inherited disease sickle cell disease have defects in their hemoglobin, the blood molecule that transports vital oxygen throughout the body. But a small percentage of patients with the disease have beneficial gene mutations that lessen their symptoms. The mutations switch on a gene that produces fetal hemoglobin—a type of the blood molecule that the body normally stops producing in infancy. The lifelong production of fetal hemoglobin helps shield those sickle cell patients from the worst effects of the disease.
European regulators have agreed to review Sanofi and Regeneron’s Dupixent for asthma and cemiplimab for advanced cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma.
Purchase includes Lynnwood, WA Biologics Manufacturing Facility
MARTIN PHARMACEUTICALS RECEIVES FDA ORPHAN DRUG DESIGNATION FOR LIVANTRA™
Eisai Inc. announced that it has submitted a supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for priority review to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its antiepileptic drug FYCOMPA® (perampanel) CIII as monotherapy and adjunctive use for the treatment of partial-onset seizures (POS) with or without secondarily generalized seizures in pediatric patients (ages 2 to less than 12 years). The submission also proposes a pediatric indication for monotherapy and adjunctive use for primary generalized tonic-clonic seizures (PGTC) in children (ages 2 to less than 12 years) with epilepsy. The sNDA is for both the FYCOMPA tablet and oral suspension formulations.
Last week on-demand healthcare concierge for provider employers Accolade received $50 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, Carrick Capital Partners, Madrona Venture Group, and McKesson Ventures, with participation from Cross Creek Advisors and Madera Technologies.
Feeling emotionally unstable could lead you to rely on your smartphone more, according to new research.
Folks in need of physical therapy services may not have to leave the house for treatment. Therainc has just launched its latest product, TheraNow, an online platform that connects patients to physical therapists through teletherapy.
The company, founded just a year ago, is developing novel glutamine antagonists that work as inhibitors of cancer metabolism, choking out tumors and their normal metabolic function.
UCB, a global biopharmaceutical company, announced the submission of an application for an Import Drug License to the Chinese Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) for the approval of CIMZIA® (certolizumab pegol) to treat moderate-to-severe rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
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