GSK's Nucala For COPD Faces Questions On Efficacy Results, Missing Data

US FDA advisory committee will consider impact of trial design, given that GSK did not collect asthma histories and chronic oral corticosteroid use information from its COPD study participants.

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The US FDA is questioning the efficacy data and other information supporting the addition of a potentially novel COPD indication to GlaxoSmithKline PLC's Nucala (mepolizumab) in advance of a July 25 advisory committee review of the supplemental application.

Nucala is seeking a claim as an add-on treatment to inhaled corticosteroid-based maintenance treatment for reduction of exacerbations in patients...

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