GlaxoSmithKline said the company’s anemia pill for patients with kidney disease was shown to have about the same side effect risk as the current standard treatment in two important patient groups, a key advantage in a tight race with rival drug developers.

In a summary of some recent studies on Covid-19, an arthritis drug cuts the death risk in high-risk patients and heart medications might help prevent Covid-19 blood clots.

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Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd. along with the company’s subsidiaries announced that Reddy-Lenalidomide, a generic equivalent to Revlimid (lenalidomide) capsules, was approved by Health Canada and launched in the Canadian market.

Vertex Pharmaceuticals and Arbor Biotechnologies announced a new collaboration to enhance efforts in developing ex vivo engineered cell therapies, using Arbor’s proprietary CRISPR gene-editing technology for select diseases.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration declined to approve FibroGen Inc.’s treatment for anemia of chronic kidney disease, citing the need for an additional clinical study.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a Complete Response Letter (CRL) to Henderson, Nev.-based Spectrum Pharmaceuticals.

Sierra Oncology, a late-stage biopharmaceutical firm specializing in treatments for rare cancers, signed an exclusive deal to use AstraZeneca’s product to develop a potential new drug for myelofibrosis.

Genentech’s Hemlibra (emicizumab-kxwh) showed no new safety signals and continued to deliver consistent bleeding control in the final analysis of a long-term, late-stage hemophilia A study.

In a roundup of scientific studies on the novel coronavirus, new findings shed light on why chronic lung diseases that block the airways increase patients’ risks for severe Covid-19 and researchers say the blood disorder anemia should probably be added to the list of risk factors for poorer Covid-19 outcomes.