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Preventative approach could reduce immunotherapy side effects

European Pharmaceutical Review

Immunotherapy drugs like teclistamab can result in potentially fatal side effects, including CRS and immune cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome (ICANS). In 2022, the drug was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for these patients. We are going with full steam into an era of immunotherapy.”

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A scientific approach to irrational consumer choices

World of DTC Marketing

GOOD MORNING: The FDA is taking a scientific approach to evaluating direct-to-consumer (DTC) drug advertising, focusing on measuring consumer perceptions of the information presented in ads. What people seem to be interested in are drug side effects vs. efficacy. Since when is consumer behavior ever scientific?

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Is it too late for Biogen?

World of DTC Marketing

While some doctors have been eager to start prescribing the newly approved drug, others had criticized the FDA for clearing the drug before studies proved it works. Food and Drug Administration on Biogen Inc.’s ” A physician on STAT News wrote, “the consequences of FDA approval are as disturbing as they are vast. .’s

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Biogen is in deep trouble and may not survive

World of DTC Marketing

Biogen undertook a secret campaign, termed Project Onyx, to persuade FDA to approve Aduhelm. According to STAT News, “acting Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Janet Woodcock acknowledged on Wednesday her agency may have misstepped in the handling of its polarizing approval of a new Alzheimer’s drug.”

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FDA approves first drug to delay type 1 diabetes

European Pharmaceutical Review

Tzield (teplizumab-mzwv), the first drug to help prolong the onset of stage 3 type 1 diabetes in adults and children over eight years old with stage 2 type 1 diabetes, has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Tzield clinical trials that supported the US Food and Drug Administration approval.

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First FDA pregnancy-approved Pertussis vaccine to protect newborns

European Pharmaceutical Review

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals’ Boostrix vaccine for use in pregnant woman in their third trimester, to prevent against whooping cough (pertussis) in infants up to two months of age. Researchers gave 340 volunteers a non-US Boostrix formulation and 340 a saline placebo.

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FDA approves first Stelara biosimilar, Wezlana

European Pharmaceutical Review

The US Food and Drug Administration ( FDA) has approved Wezlana (ustekinumab-auub) as a biosimilar to Johnson & Johnson’s Stelara (ustekinumab). Like Stelara, the most serious known side effect of Wezlana is infection. US sales of Stelara totalled $6.4 billion in 2022, according to J&J’s financial results.