Tag: FDA

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 …

March 28, 2017 Off

FDA OK’s Tesaro’s ovarian cancer drug

By Dino Mustafić

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Tesaro’s Zejula (niraparib) for the maintenance treatment (intended to delay cancer growth) of adult patients with recurrent epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube or primary peritoneal cancer, whose tumors have completely or partially shrunk (complete or partial response, respectively) in response to platinum-based chemotherapy.

March 22, 2017 Off

FDA OK’s Parkinson’s disease drug

By Dino Mustafić

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Newron Pharmaceuticals’s Xadago (safinamide) tablets as an add-on treatment for patients with Parkinson’s disease who are currently taking levodopa/carbidopa.

March 21, 2017 Off

FDA OK’s Allergan’s beauty drug

By Dino Mustafić

Allergan has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market JUVÉDERM VOLLURETM XC, for correction of moderate to severe facial wrinkles and folds, such as nasolabial folds, in adults over the age of 21.