Ireland’s Horizon Therapeutics became the first to win regulatory approval in the United States for the treatment of Thyroid Eye Disease (TED), a progressive autoimmune disorder that can threaten the vision of those afflicted.

Horizon Pharma announced that new data from the Phase 3 confirmatory study evaluating teprotumumab for treating active thyroid eye disease were presented as part of a late-breaking oral presentation at the 2019 AACE Scientific and Clinical Congress.