AstraZeneca’s Saphnelo (anifrolumab-fnia) was approved in the United States for the treatment of adult patients with moderate to severe systemic lupus erythematosus who are receiving standard therapy.

Bristol Myers Squibb’s experimental psoriasis drug deucravacitinib (BMS-986165) beat out Amgen’s Otezla (apremilast) in the POETYK PSO-1 Phase III clinical trial.

Researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark published research indicating that Parkinson’s disease is actually two types of the disease.

Progentec Diagnostics Inc. launched a novel blood test to determine the likelihood that a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus (commonly known as both SLE and lupus) will experience an immunologic disease flare during the coming 12 weeks.

Despite the success Gilead Sciences has experienced with the JAK inhibitor filgotinib in rheumatoid arthritis, the medication failed to hit the mark in mid-stage trials aimed at lupus and Sjogren’s syndrome.

AstraZeneca’s experimental drug to treat moderate-to-severe lupus met the main goal in a late-stage trial. During 2018, anifrolumab failed to meet the primary target in the final stage of another study.