The risk and benefit of Pfizer Inc.’s oral sickle cell disease drug Oxbryta (voxelotor) has flipped, prompted by what the company called new clinical data indicating “an imbalance in vaso-occlusive crises and fatal events” that need more study. Based on an EMA recommendation, Pfizer said it is voluntarily recalling all lots of Oxbryta from wherever it’s approved worldwide. Pfizer also is shuttering its Oxbryta clinical studies and expanded access programs.
For once, the EMA appears to have pipped the U.S. FDA to the post, with Pfizer Inc.’s hemophilia A and B therapy Hympavzi (marstacimab) recommended for approval in Europe on Sept. 20, while the U.S. PDUFA date is set for the fourth quarter of the year.
The European Medicines Agency advised its member state regulatory partners to closely track how they use LLMs in making regulatory decisions – a clear signal that some regulatory decisions may be inappropriately torqued by their well-known shortcomings.
Vivet Therapeutics SAS has announced its gene therapy VTX-806 has been awarded European orphan drug designation for the treatment of cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis (CTX), a rare disorder of bile acid metabolism.
The European Medicines Agency seems focused on pharmaceuticals to the near exclusion of medical technology, but the agency recently reported the launch of a pilot program for orphan medical devices.
The EMA’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) recommended approval of 14 drugs and the extension of the label of 11 others at its July meeting, but, inevitably, it was the decision to turn down the Alzheimer’s disease therapy Leqembi (lecanemab) that stirred the greatest reaction.
The European Commission has approved Cstone Pharmaceuticals Ltd.’s PD-L1 monoclonal antibody, sugemalimab, in combination with platinum-based chemotherapy for first-line treatment of adults with metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer with no sensitizing EGFR mutations, or ALK, ROS1 or RET genomic tumor aberrations.
Biogen Inc. and partner Eisai Co. Ltd. said the EMA’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has adopted a negative opinion on the marketing bid for lecanemab in early Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and mild AD. The humanized anti-soluble aggregated amyloid-beta monoclonal antibody is approved in the U.S., Japan, China, South Korea, Hong Kong and Israel, and is being sold in the U.S., where it’s branded Leqembi, as well as Japan and China. Eisai, of Tokyo, will ask the CHMP to re-examine the matter.
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