Tag Archive for: idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

The company was development a treatment for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a condition in which the lungs become scarred and breathing becomes difficult.

Company president and CEO Bernard Coulie, M.D., Ph.D. called the data “unprecedented in IPF clinical drug development”.

And then there were two. Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) is no longer in the running to acquire rare disease player Horizon Therapeutics, the company announced Saturday. 

United Therapeutics announced on Tuesday that the company received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for its therapeutic Tyvaso DPI. Tyvaso DPI marks the first approval of a dry powder inhaler for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and pulmonary hypertension associated with interstitial lung disease (PH-ILD).