momelotinib

Sep 22, 2023

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...

Aug 31, 2018

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...

Aug 23, 2018

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, ...