Ultomiris (ravulizumab) has been approved in Japan as the first and only long-acting C5 complement inhibitor for the prevention of relapses in patients with anti-aquaporin-4 (AQP4) antibody-positive (Ab+) neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD), including neuromyelitis optica.
Ultomiris (ravulizumab) has been approved in the European Union (EU) as the first and only long-acting C5 complement inhibitor for the treatment of adult patients with anti-aquaporin-4 (AQP4) antibody-positive (Ab+) neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD).
AstraZeneca, Swedish Orphan Biovitrum AB (publ) (Sobi) and Sanofi have updated and simplified their contractual arrangements relating to the development and commercialisation of nirsevimab in the US. Given the upcoming launch of nirsevimab in the US and other markets, simplification of the prior arrangements clarifies the roles and responsibilities of relevant parties.
Under the updated arra
AstraZeneca will showcase new data across its Vaccines and Immune Therapies Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) portfolio at the 7th Respiratory Syncytial Virus Foundation (ReSViNET) Conference in Lisbon, Portugal from 22-24 February 2023, reinforcing its commitment to help protect infants from RSV.
AstraZeneca and Amgen’s Tezspire (tezepelumab) has been approved in the US for self-administration in a pre-filled, single-use pen for patients aged 12 years and older with severe asthma. Tezspire is the only biologic approved for severe asthma with no phenotype (e.g. eosinophilic or allergic) or biomarker limitation within its approved label.
AstraZeneca’s Tezspire (tezepelumab) has received a positive opinion from the European Medicine Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) for self-administration in a pre-filled, single-use pen for patients aged 12 years and older with severe asthma.
Airsupra (albuterol/budesonide), formerly known as PT027, has been approved in the US for the as-needed treatment or prevention of bronchoconstriction and to reduce the risk of exacerbations in people with asthma aged 18 years and older.
AstraZeneca’s Biologics License Application (BLA) for nirsevimab has been accepted for review by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the prevention of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) lower respiratory tract disease in newborns and infants entering or during their first RSV season, and for children up to 24 months of age who remain vulnerable to severe RSV disease through their second..
First and only rescue medication recommended for US approval that has been shown to reduce severe exacerbations.
The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Pulmonary-Allergy Drugs Advisory Committee (PADAC) has voted 16 to 1 that the data support a favourable benefit risk assessment for the use of PT027 (albuterol/budesonide) for the treatment of asthma in people aged 18 years and older. In a
AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine, Vaxzevria (ChAdOx1-S [Recombinant]), has been granted full Marketing Authorisation (MA) in the European Union (EU).
AstraZeneca’s Tezspire (tezepelumab) has been approved in Japan for the treatment of bronchial asthma in patients with severe or refractory disease in whom asthma symptoms cannot be controlled with mid- or high-dose inhaled corticosteroids and other long-term maintenance therapies.
AstraZeneca’s Tezspire (tezepelumab) has been approved in the European Union (EU) as an add-on maintenance treatment in patients 12 years and older with severe asthma who are inadequately controlled with high dose inhaled corticosteroids plus another medicinal product.
A prespecified interim analysis of the ALPHA Phase III trial evaluating danicopan (ALXN2040), an investigational, oral factor D inhibitor, as an add-on to C5 inhibitor therapy Ultomiris (ravulizumab) or Soliris (eculizumab) showed positive high-level results in patients with paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria (PNH) who experience clinically significant extravascular haemolysis (EVH).
AstraZeneca's Evusheld (tixagevimab and cilgavimab, formerly AZD7442), a long-acting antibody combination, has been recommended for marketing authorisation in the European Union (EU) for the treatment of adults and adolescents (aged 12 years and older weighing at least 40 kg) with COVID 19 who do not require supplemental oxygen and who are at increased risk of progressing to severe COVID 19.
AstraZeneca and Sanofi’s Beyfortus (nirsevimab) has been recommended for marketing authorisation in the European Union (EU) for the prevention of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) lower respiratory tract disease in newborns and infants during their first RSV season.
Detailed positive results from an interim analysis of the DESTINY-Lung02 Phase II trial showed Enhertu demonstrated clinically meaningful tumour responses in previously-treated patients with HER2-mutant unresectable and/or metastatic non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer. Results will be presented today as a late-breaking presentation at the European Society for Medical Oncology Congress 2022.
AstraZeneca's Evusheld (tixagevimab and cilgavimab, formerly AZD7442), a long-acting antibody combination, has been approved in Japan for both prevention (pre-exposure prophylaxis) and treatment of symptomatic disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection. The decision marks the first global marketing approval for Evusheld as a treatment for COVID-19.
Preliminary results from the SAVANNAH Phase II trial showed that Tagrisso (osimertinib) plus savolitinib demonstrated an objective response rate of 49% in patients with epidermal growth factor receptor-mutated non-small cell lung cancer with high levels of MET overexpression and/or amplification, defined as IHC90+ and/or FISH10+, whose disease progressed on treatment with Tagrisso.
Detailed results from the PROVENT Phase III pre-exposure prophylaxis trial showed that AstraZeneca’s Evusheld, formerly AZD7442, reduced the risk of developing symptomatic COVID-19 by 77% in the primary analysis and by 83% in the six month follow-up analysis, compared to placebo. There were no cases of severe disease or COVID-19 related deaths in the Evusheld group through the six-month follow-up.
AstraZeneca's Evusheld (tixagevimab co-packaged with cilgavimab), a long-acting antibody combination, has been recommended for marketing authorisation in the European Union (EU) for the pre-exposure prophylaxis (prevention) of COVID-19 in a broad population of adults and adolescents aged 12 years and older weighing at least 40 kg.
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