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Agile Therapeutics resubmits application for Twirla contraceptive patch

American Pharmacy News Reports | Jul 8, 2017
Twirla is an investigational low-dose transdermal patch.

Progressive women's health care company Agile Therapeutics Inc. of Princeton, New Jersey has resubmitted its Twirla hormonal contraceptive patch to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for a New Drug Application. Read More »

SteadyMed submits new drug application for Trevyent

American Pharmacy News Reports | Jul 7, 2017
PatchPump is a disposable drug administration tool that is filled onsite with the manufacturer.

Cardiome Pharma Corp. partner SteadyMed Ltd. has submitted a New Drug Application for Trevyent with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Read More »

FDA grants Biohaven's BHV-5000 orphan drug status

American Pharmacy News Reports | Jul 6, 2017
BHV-5000 was licensed to Biohaven from AstraZeneca in late 2016.

New Haven, Connecticut-based Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.’s BHV-5000 compound developed to treat Rett syndrome recently attained orphan drug designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), its fourth product to achieve the status. Read More »

FDA seeks additional details on Egalet’s Oxaydo application

American Pharmacy News Reports | Jul 6, 2017
Oxaydo works as an immediate-release medication to manage acute and chronic moderate to severe pain.

Egalet Corp. of Pennsylvania recently obtained a complete response letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration about its Oxaydo tablets in 10 mg and 15 mg dosage strengths. Read More »

FDA OKs Darzalex immunotherapy for multiple myleoma patients

American Pharmacy News Reports | Jul 6, 2017
Janssen Biotech's Darzalex immunotherapy was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Janssen Biotech's Darzalex immunotherapy was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for treating patients with multiple myeloma in combination with pomalidomide and dexamethasone. Read More »

CSL Behring's drug for reducing HAE attacks approved

American Pharmacy News Reports | Jul 3, 2017
A Phase III study confirmed the safety and efficacy of Haegarda.

CSL Behring's Haegarda drug, the only subcutaneous therapy for preventing hereditary angioedema attacks in both adolescents and adults, was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Read More »

Ipsen's Dysport approved for expanded use by FDA

American Pharmacy News Reports | Jul 3, 2017
Dysport is currently the only botulinum toxin approved by the FDA for the treatment of spasticity in adults.

Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals Inc., an affiliate of Ipsen SA, has had its Dysport injection for treating spasticity in adults approved for expanded use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Read More »

Advair Diskus application accepted by FDA

American Pharmacy News Reports | Jul 3, 2017
Advair Diskus will treat patients 4 and older who suffer from asthma.

Sandoz's Abbreviated New Drug Application for fluticasone propionate/salmeterol combination product, a substitutable generic version of Advair Diskus, was accepted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Read More »

Amgen's Mimpara given position opinion in Europe

American Pharmacy News Reports | Jul 2, 2017
The European Commission will now review the CHMP positive opinion.

Amgen recently announced that its Mimpara drug has been given a positive opinion by the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use of the European Medicines Agency. Read More »

AbbVie's HCV injection drug Maviret receives positive opinion

American Pharmacy News Reports | Jul 2, 2017
 EMA is giving AbbVie an accelerated assessment to the marketing authorization application for Maviret.

AbbVie's chronic hepatitis C virus infection drug, Maviret, was granted a positive opinion by the European Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use of the European Medicines Agency. Read More »

Halozyme technology used in newly FDA-approved Genentech drug

American Pharmacy News Reports | Jul 2, 2017
Rituxan H will be available within a week or two in the United States.

Halozyme Therapeutics Inc.'s Genentech’s Rituxan Hycelatm, which uses Halozyme’s hyaluronidase human enhance technology, was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for subcutaneous injection in multiple blood cancer indications. Read More »

Lannett nets approval for added doses of hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen

American Pharmacy News Reports | Jul 2, 2017
Lannett has attained five approvals thus far in 2017, including four approvals during June alone.

Lannett Company Inc. now has access to “the lion's share of the market” for newly approved dosage strengths of its hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets following recent FDA authorization, according to Lannett CEO Arthur Bedrosian. Read More »

Breckenridge Pharmaceutical nets FDA approval for Azacitidine

American Pharmacy News Reports | Jun 30, 2017
Azacitidine is a generic version of Vidaza, which treats myelodysplastic syndrome.

A prescription chemotherapy drug manufactured by Florida-based Breckenridge Pharmaceutical Inc. has earned Food and Drug Administration approval, moving a step closer to combating a rare type of blood and bone marrow cancer. Read More »

Icon Bioscience’s Dexycu scores NDA acceptance from FDA

American Pharmacy News Reports | Jun 30, 2017
Dexycu uses Icon’s proprietary Verisome technology in a sustained-release version of dexamethasone.

Intraocular therapeutics manufacturer Icon Bioscience Inc., focusing on innovative eye care, recently obtained U.S. Food and Drug Administration acceptance of its new drug application for Dexycu, with full approval anticipated in 2018. Read More »

BioDelivery receives Belbuca’s Canadian approval

American Pharmacy News Reports | Jun 30, 2017
The product is intended as an alternative treatment option rather than marketed as an as-needed analgesic.

To combat severe pain for which alternative treatments fall short, BioDelivery Sciences International Inc.’s Belbuca (buprenorphine hydrochloride buccal film) product has just gained approval from Canada’s regulatory body, Health Canada, earning its Notice of Compliance. Read More »

Adapt Pharma heeds rules for first responders dealing with opioids

American Pharmacy News Reports | Jun 29, 2017
New synthetic opioids are more potent than commonly used opioids like morphine, oxycodone or heroin.

Adapt Pharma recently acknowledged the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's new guidance rules for first responders related to the hazards of fentanyl exposure. Read More »

Portola's Bevyxxa approved for patients at risk of thromboembolic complication

American Pharmacy News Reports | Jun 29, 2017
Bevyxxa is an oral, once-daily Faxtor Xa inhibitor.

Portola Pharmaceuticals recently announced that its Bevyxxa drug was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for treating adult patients hospitalized for an acute medical illness who are at risk for thromboembolic complication. Read More »

Citius Pharmaceuticals receives U.S. patent for new catheter technology

American Pharmacy News Reports | Jun 27, 2017
The company holds an exclusive worldwide license for the technology, which will be put toward its Mino-Lok solution.

The U.S. Patent Office published Citius Pharmaceuticals' patent application for enhanced stability of antimicrobial solutions for locking central venous catheters. Read More »

FDA files paperwork for Rigel Pharmaceuticals' Tavalisse

American Pharmacy News Reports | Jun 27, 2017
ITP affects patients by causing the immune system to attack and destroy the body’s own blood platelets.

Rigel Pharmaceuticals Inc. recently announced that its New Drug Application (NDA) for the use of Tavalisse in treating chronic or persistent immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) has been filed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Read More »

PharmaMar to present findings to FDA's Pediatric Oncology Subcommittee

American Pharmacy News Reports | Jun 27, 2017
PharmaMar officials believe there may be potential relevance for PM1183 to be developed in one or more pediatric cancers.

PharmaMar will present clinical data from Phase I and II studies examining Zepsyre’s effect on pediatric cancers and hematological disorders to the Pediatric Oncology Subcommittee of the Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Read More »

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