momelotinib

On September 15, the FDA authorized GSK’s oral medication momelotinib, now known as Ojjaara, for the treatment of myelofibrosis in adults with anemia. Myelofibrosis is a disorder where normal bone marrow tissue is slowly substituted by fibrous, scar-like material. It is categorized as a form of chronic leukemia and...

NICE Rejects Gilead Sciences’ Yescarta on Cost Concerns The United Kingdom’s government-funded health service isn’t being so nice to Gilead Sciences’ CAR-T blood cancer treatment Yescarta. The country’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) said the therapy is too expensive for th...

AstraZeneca dragout Entasis files to fund antibiotic phase 3 for USD 86 Million IPO Massachusetts-based Entasis Therapeutics has spun out to raise up to USD 86 Million through an IPO. The AstraZeneca spinout is attempting to fund a phase 3 trial of a drug to overcome bacterial resistance to beta-lactams. In 2015, ...