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FDA grants priority review to omalizumab for food allergies

European Pharmaceutical Review

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted priority review to Roche’s supplemental Biologics License Application for Xolair ® (omalizumab) for treatment of children and adults with food allergies. The study involves patients aged 1 to 55 years who are allergic to peanuts and at least two other common foods.

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CHMP issues positive option for first gene-editing medicine

European Pharmaceutical Review

The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has adopted a positive opinion for the conditional approval of Vertex’s gene-editing therapy Casgevy for the treatment of severe sickle cell disease and transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia.

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Eosinophilic esophagitis medicine approval expanded

European Pharmaceutical Review

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Dupixent ® (dupilumab) as a treatment for children patients aged one to 11 years, weighing at least 15kg with eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE). First medicine approved in EU for eosinophilic esophagitis What did the data from the Phase III Dupixent study show?

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Innovation to drive advanced drug delivery market

European Pharmaceutical Review

A report by Towards Healthcare has forecasted that the advanced drug delivery market will value $375.86 The year 2023 was “significant” for the progress of advanced drug delivery systems, the author reflected. A key innovation method is the oral route of administration. billion by 2033. Last year, with a size of $234.84

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US FDA approves Blueprint Medicines’ indolent systemic mastocytosis therapy

Pharmaceutical Technology

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for Blueprint Medicines’ Ayvakit (avapritinib) as the first and only treatment for indolent systemic mastocytosis (ISM) in adult patients.

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Generic manufacturers sign sublicences to produce long-acting HIV medicine

European Pharmaceutical Review

The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) has signed sublicence agreements with three generics manufacturers to produce generic versions of cabotegravir long-acting (LA) injectable for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). The pharma companies who will manufacture the generic versions are Viatris, Aurobindo and Cipla.

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First adult anti-inflammatory cardiovascular drug approved

European Pharmaceutical Review

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved LODOCO ® , the “first drug to target cardiovascular inflammation,” reported Dr Paul Ridker, MPH, Professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, Brigham and Women’s Hospital.