US FDA advisory committee members urge agency to hold a firm line against labeling, promotional or educational materials that suggest Descovy has better efficacy or is safer than Truvada, which will face generic competition in 2020. Panel backs HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis indication for Descovy but recommends excluding cisgender women due to lack of clinical efficacy data.
Gilead Sciences Inc. has emphasized the renal and bone safety benefits of Descovy (emtricitabine/tenofovir alafenamide or FTC/TAF) relative to Truvada (emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate or FTC/TDF) as it works to convert patients ahead of generic competition to the older HIV fixed-dose combination therapy in 2020.
However, those efforts hit strong resistance at a US Food and Drug Administration advisory committee review of a pre-exposure prophylaxis...
The Swiss pharma company is rebalancing the portfolio, emphasizing best-in-class drugs and moving into new areas like cardiovascular and metabolic disease.
In this week's episode: Trump’s UK drug pricing win; Novo explains semaglutide Alzheimer's rationale; J&J and Novartis on this year’s biggest M&A deals; a look at the mixed performance of CAR-Ts; and Akeso’s goals beyond ivonescimab.
Pipelines in bioconjugates continue to develop, from ADCs to XDCs, with radionuclide drug conjugates (RDCs) and antibody-oligonucleotide conjugates (AOCs) leading the expansion.
Lilly's first Phase III triplet win opens the door to a label expansion in BTK-pretreated CLL, with analysts suggesting Jaypica could attain blockbuster status. However, the window to capitalize may be brief as next-generation BTK degraders close in with head-to-head trials.
Mounjaro, Eliquis, and Darzalex buck the Q1 trend to make gains
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