AATD

CHMP Gives Positive Opinion on Takeda’s Qdenga  The European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has given its approval to Takeda GmbH’s Qdenga, a live, attenuated dengue tetravalent vaccine (TAK-003). It is the first time the CHMP has reviewed a medicinal product ...

Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) was first identified by Carl-Bertil Laurell and Sten Eriksson (Laurell and Eriksson 1963) in 1963,  who discovered a link between low plasma serum AAT levels and pulmonary emphysema symptoms. With time as the understanding of the genetic abnormalities grew, AAT deficiency c...