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FDA hands Cassiopea its first approval, for acne drug Winlevi

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Shares in dermatology specialist Cassiopea, which is listed on the SWX exchange in Switzerland, rose almost 17% after news of the FDA approval emerged. Retinoids can help unclog pores, while antibiotics can limit the growth of bacteria.

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Sanofi snaps up acne vaccine developer Origimm Bio

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Sanofi said it would also apply its mRNA vaccine platform – acquired along with Translate Bio earlier this year – to find other acne vaccine candidates that could start clinical trials in 2023. Origimm’s expertise in the skin microbiome and antigen discovery will be central to that effort, it added.

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It’s been a long time coming for long-term topical psoriasis treatments

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Food and Drug Administration approved Vtama (tapinarof) cream, an aryl hydrocarbon receptor agonist and the first FDA-approved steroid-free topical medication in its class. Two months later, Arcutis won approval for its Zoryve (roflumilast) cream. When this hormone is suppressed, response to stressors (e.g.

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GSK receives FDA accelerated approval for JEMPERLI (dostarlimab-gxly) for adult patients with mismatch repair-deficient (dMMR) recurrent or advanced solid tumours

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Second FDA approved indication for dostarlimab in 2021 GARNET study demonstrated objective response rate of 41.6% This indication received accelerated approval based on tumour response rate and durability of response. The GARNET trial is a multicentre, non-randomised, multiple parallel-cohort, open-label study.

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LENVIMA® (lenvatinib) Combination for Patients With Certain Types of Advanced Endometrial Carcinoma

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The approval for this population is based on results from the pivotal Phase 3 KEYNOTE-775/Study 309 trial, in which KEYTRUDA plus LENVIMA demonstrated statistically significant improvements in overall survival (OS), reducing the risk of death by 32% (HR=0.68 [95% CI, 0.56-0.84];

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FDA Approves Merck’s KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) in Combination With Padcev® (enfortumab vedotin-ejfv) for First-Line Treatment of Certain Patients With Locally Advanced or Metastatic Urothelial Cancer

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Continued approval for this indication may be contingent upon verification and description of clinical benefit in the confirmatory trials. This marks the first time an anti-PD-1 therapy has been approved in combination with anantibody-drug conjugate in the U.S. confirmatory trial for the accelerated approval.

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Top 30 Pharma and Biotech Companies in 2023: Statistics and Trends

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Paxlovid was first authorized under the FDA Emergency Use Authorization in December 2021 ; however, it has received FDA approval on May 25, 2023. pneumoniae serotypes) replaced the company’s first pneumococcal conjugate vaccine Prevnar (PCV7, approved by the FDA in February 2000) in a February 2010 FDA approval.

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