Tag: FDA

May 18, 2017 Off

FDA OK’s Vertex’s cystic fibrosis drug

By Dino Mustafić

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ Kalydeco (ivacaftor) for use in people with cystic fibrosis (CF) ages 2 and older who have one of 23 residual function mutations in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene.

May 4, 2017 Off

FDA takes Pfizer’s sNDA for psoriatic arthritis drug

By Dino Mustafić

United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for review the supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for Pfizer’s Xeljanz (tofacitinib citrate) 5 mg twice daily (BID) and XeljanzXR extended release 11 mg once daily use the treatment of adult patients with active psoriatic arthritis (PsA).

April 7, 2017 Off

FDA OK’s Gilead Sciences’s hepatitis C drug for pediatric patients

By Dino Mustafić

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved supplemental indications for Gilead Sciences’s Harvoni (ledipasvir 90 mg/sofosbuvir 400 mg) tablets and Sovaldi (sofosbuvir 400 mg) tablets for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in adolescents without cirrhosis or with compensated cirrhosis, 12 years of age and older, or weighing at least 35kg.

April 3, 2017 Off

FDA grants Kitov waiver for New Drug Application filing fee

By Dino Mustafić

Kitov Pharmaceuticals Holdings Ltd, a NASDAQ and TASE listed innovative biopharmaceutical company, said Monday that that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Kitov a waiver related to the $2,038,100 New Drug Application filing fee for Kitov’s patented combination of …