spinal muscular atrophy
Feb 16, 2026
7 Emerging Spinal Muscular Atrophy Therapies Offering Hope for Patients
The approval of three transformative spinal muscular atrophy therapies—SPINRAZA (Ionis/Biogen), EVRYSDI (Roche), and the groundbreaking gene therapy ZOLGENSMA (Novartis) has reshaped the spinal muscular atrophy treatment market. These breakthrough SMA medicines have significantly expanded SMA treatment options, off...
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Nov 25, 2025
Novartis Secures FDA Approval for ITVISMA; Kelun-Biotech’s Phase III Study Shows Sac-TMT + Keytruda Achieves Primary Endpoint in First-Line PD-L1-Positive NSCLC; Evoke Phase 3 Trials Failed to Show a Statistically Significant Impact on Alzheimer’s Disease Progression; Sangamo Therapeutics Gets FDA Nod for Rolling BLA Submission of ST-920 in Fabry Disease; Bayer’s HYRNUO Receives FDA Accelerated Approval for Previously Treated HER2-mutant NSCLC
Novartis Secures FDA Approval of ITVISMA for Children Two Years and Older, Teens, and Adults with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Novartis has announced a significant expansion in the treatment landscape for Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) with the FDA approval of ITVISMA (onasemnogene abeparvovec-brve). This one-ti...
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Sep 10, 2024
Biogen’s SPINRAZA Phase II/III Trial Results; Travere’s FILSPARI FDA Approval; GSK’s NUCALA Succeeds in COPD Trial; Summit’s NSCLC Win Over KEYTRUDA Raises Caution; FDA Lifts Hold on RZ358 for Congenital Hyperinsulinism
Biogen's Higher SPINRAZA Dose Shows Improved Efficacy in Phase II/III Trial A trial studying a higher dose of Biogen’s spinal muscular atrophy drug SPINRAZA (nusinersen) has met the primary endpoint in a cohort of infants with SMA. The Phase II/III DEVOTE study, which included 145 patients across various ages an...
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Aug 23, 2024
Nucleic Acids and Gene Therapies in Neuromuscular Disorders: Next-Generation Therapeutic Strategies
Neuromuscular disorders (NMD) encompass a broad spectrum of conditions impacting the peripheral nervous system, which comprises all motor and sensory nerves linking the brain and spinal cord to the body. These disorders comprise various classes of diseases, such as muscular dystrophies, myopathies, motor neuron dis...
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Aug 01, 2023
FDA Expands GSK’s Jemperli Approval; Biogen to Acquire Reata Pharma; Enhertu Shows Survival Boost in HER2+ Solid Tumors; FDA Rejects Citius’ Revived IL-2 Therapy; FDA Fast Track designation to IVS-3001 for RCC; EU Orphan Drug Designation to Biohaven’s Taldefgrobep Alfa
FDA Expands GSK’s Jemperli Approval for Endometrial Cancer GSK plc announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Jemperli (dostarlimab) in combination with carboplatin and paclitaxel, followed by Jemperli as a single agent for the treatment of adult patients with mismatch repair deficient...
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May 12, 2023
Gene Therapy in Rare Disorders: Acceptance in Europe Faces Challenges
By bringing life-changing benefits to people with rare diseases and cancers, cell and gene therapies are reshaping the field of medicine. These treatments have recently gained tremendous publicity for meeting long-standing unmet needs and being extremely costly. But high production costs are limiting patient access...
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Feb 28, 2023
SpringWorks’s Desmoid Tumors Therapeutic, Nirogacestat; Orphan Drug Designation to AskBio’s AB-1003; Mitsubishi Tanabe’s Phase 3 Trial of RADICAVA ORS in ALS; EU Orphan Drug Designation to Sage Therapeutics’s SAGE-718; FDA Fast Track Status to Biohaven’s Taldefgrobep Alfa
Sage Therapeutics Receives EU Orphan Drug Designation for Huntington's Disease Treatment Candidate Sage Therapeutics declared the European Medicines Agency granted Orphan Drug Designation to SAGE-718 for the treatment of Huntington's disease. SAGE-718 is developing as a potential oral therapy for cognitive disor...
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Aug 16, 2022
Novartis’ Canakinumab for NSCLC; Novartis’s Zolgensma Updates; Trodelvy Prospects in New Breast Cancer Use; Novartis Secures European Approval For Pluvicto; Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Abecma Phase III Trials; Trastuzumab Approved for Deruxtecan for HER2-Mutant NSCLC
Novartis’ Canakinumab Fails in Phase III Trials for NSCLC Canakinumab's prospects as an anticancer therapy were already dwindling when a third phase III trial in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) failed to reach its objectives. The most recent setback came from the CANOPY-A study, which included patients with N...
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Apr 20, 2022
Top 12 Most Expensive Drugs in the US Healthcare Market
Drug pricing is one of the hottest topics in the healthcare segment. Several arguments have been put forward by people, governments, healthcare companies, and other organizations in favor of and against expensive medicines. Some of the drugs are so expensive that they are nearly out of reach of the common people. H...
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Aug 11, 2020
FDA’s Ok to Roche’s Oral SMA Therapy; Roche’s Etrolizumab Mixed Results in Ulcerative Colitis; Secura receives rights to Copiktra from Verastem
Roche Set to Compete With Biogen and Novartis in the SMA Market With its First Oral Therapy The US FDA has recommended the use of Evrysdi (risdiplam), a candidate of Genentech, a Roche company, for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), an inherited neuromuscular disease resulting in muscle atrophy, in adults and...
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