The approval marks a significant milestone for the American pharmaceutical company in the field of UC, following the approval by the FDA in October 2023 and the EMA approval in February 2024.
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Britain’s competition watchdog said Theramex’s purchase of European rights to two of Viatris’ women’s healthcare products ranges could lead to higher prices and fewer options for hormone replacement therapies (HRT).
Casgevy is the first medicine to be licensed that uses the gene-editing tool CRISPR, which won its inventors the Nobel Prize in 2020, Britain’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said.
The company announces a second UK-based office in Manchester and adds four new scientific and advertising principals to EMEA leadership team.
The drug, branded as Litfulo, has been approved by UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) for people aged 12 years and older suffering from severe alopecia areata.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) said in draft final guidance that it estimates some 180,000 people could benefit from the new treatment.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency said AstraZeneca’s GLP-1 drug for type 2 diabetes, called exenatide and marketed as Bydureon, was also included in the review.
Britain will launch a pilot program to explore how new weekly weight-loss shots such as Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy can be given to obese patients outside of limited specialist services even as the drug’s market launch remains unclear.
Under the ORION-17 trial, planned to involve 40,000 patients, Novartis was trying to show that its Leqvio drug could prevent the first occurrence of major cardiovascular health problems in high-cholesterol patients, part of a broader collaboration with the British health system.
England’s government agency responsible for responding to public health emergencies said mistakes at a testing laboratory resulted in tens of thousands of positive COVID-19 cases reported as negative may have led to the deaths of 20 people.
