When I am asked how Thanksgiving was for my family, I tell people that my little family ate a feast at home, watched television and relaxed. It was uneventful, nothing exciting. And that is exciting in itself. When you live with a bleeding disorder, your life can be…
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Officials of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals have agreed on safety measures and a “risk mitigation strategy” to allow the resumption of clinical studies of fitusiran, the company said in a recent press release. All ongoing trials of fitusiran had been suspended after the Sept. 7 death…
Last week, I was on Facebook and a post I had been dreaming about appeared on my timeline. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new therapy, Hemlibra (emicizumab-kxwh), for patients with hemophilia A and inhibitors. It’s the first new medicine for inhibitors in almost…
The European Medicines Agency has recommended marketing authorization for Shire’s Adynovi (BAX-855) as a treatment for adults and adolescents with hemophilia A. Approval would mean the therapy could be used twice a week to prevent bleeding episodes and to counter bleeding when episodes do occur. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Hemlibra (emicizumab-kxwh) for routine prophylaxis to prevent or lessen bleeding episodes in children and adults with hemophilia A with factor VIII inhibitors, Genentech announced. Hemlibra is first newly approved treatment for this patient group in almost 20 years, the…
Swedish Orphan Biovitrum (Sobi) announced the successful enrollment of the first hemophilia A patient in the company’s ReITIrate clinical trial. The Phase 4 study (NCT03103542), sponsored in collaboration with Bioverativ Therapeutics, is actively recruiting participants who have developed inhibitors and who have failed to respond to other therapies. Researchers will…
Interim results from the Phase 3 ASPIRE study indicate that patients with hemophilia A showed continuous improvement in joint health for nearly three years while receiving prophylactic dosing of Bioverativ and Sobi’s Eloctate. The interim results were reported in a study titled, “Improved joint health in subjects with severe haemophilia A…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted Bayer’s Biologics License Application (BLA) filing for BAY94-9027 to treat hemophilia A in adolescents starting at age 12, and in adults. A BLA is a marketing application that covers biological products, as opposed to chemically synthesized ones, and its…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation to BioMarin Pharmaceutical’s investigative therapy, valoctocogene roxaparvovec to treat patients with hemophilia A. This new status is likely to speed up the development and regulatory review of valoctocogene roxaparvovec, which has already received an Orphan Drug Designation from both…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently granted orphan drug status to SHP654 (BAX 888), an investigational factor VIII (FVIII) gene therapy candidate being developed by Shire for the treatment of hemophilia A. Gene therapy allows the delivery of a functional copy of the defective gene.