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Lexicon gets FDA approval for Inpefa to treat heart failure

Pharmaceutical Technology

Lexicon Pharmaceuticals (Lexicon) has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Inpefa drug to treat heart failure. The SOLOIST-WHF (worsening heart failure) and SCORED trials together assessed around 12,000 patients.

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FDA greenlights Boston Scientific’s Novel Drug-Coated Balloon for Coronary In-Stent Restenosis

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Boston Scientific’s AGENT Drug-Coated Balloon (DCB) has been granted approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for treating coronary in-stent restenosis (ISR) in patients with coronary artery disease. physicians the opportunity to treat their patients with this novel device.”

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Innovative personalised immunotherapy approved for multiple myeloma

European Pharmaceutical Review

The first BCMA-targeted CAR-T cell therapy for second-line treatment of multiple myeloma has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Basis of the approval of the CAR-T therapy FDA’s approval of the personalised treatment is based on positive results from the Phase III CARTITUDE-4 study.

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US FDA approves Apellis’ geographic atrophy therapy Syfovre

Pharmaceutical Technology

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for Apellis Pharmaceuticals’ Syfovre (pegcetacoplan injection) to treat geographic atrophy (GA), an advanced form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Syfovre is claimed to be the first and only therapy approved for GA.

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US FDA approves label update for Horizon’s Tepezza TED drug

Pharmaceutical Technology

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an update to the indications and usage section of Horizon Therapeutics ’ Tepezza (teprotumumab-trbw) label to specify its use to treat thyroid eye disease (TED) patients regardless of disease activity or duration.

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Parkinson’s infusion treatment demonstrates advantage over oral delivery

European Pharmaceutical Review

A Phase III trial has shown that compared oral drug delivery, administering levodopa through an infusion pump led to nearly two hours of day (1.72) of additional time in which the medicine reduced symptoms in Parkinson’s patients. There were 381 Parkinson’s patients enrolled in the trial. and Joan A.

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EndoStim Receives FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for the EndoStim System for the Treatment of Drug Refractory GERD

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EndoStim , a medical device company developing and commercializing a first-in-class implantable neurostimulation treatment for drug refractory gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Breakthrough Device Designation for the Company’s EndoStim System.