EC approves ustekinumab to treat plaque psoriasis in patients age six to 11
The European Commission has granted marketing authorisation to Stelara (ustekinumab) to treat patients aged six to 11 with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis.
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The European Commission has granted marketing authorisation to Stelara (ustekinumab) to treat patients aged six to 11 with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis.
The EMA’s CHMP has adopted a positive opinion for five medicines and recommended extending the indications for eight more.
The European Medicines Agency has issued advice to pharmaceutical companies on how to avoid the presence of nitrosamines in medicines.
The EMA has suggested seven treatments to be granted marketing authorisations and also advocated indication extension for eight drugs.
A new biosimilar drug to treat osteoporosis is now available across Europe after the patent for its reference product expired.
The European Commission has approved the drug for two indications: chronic lymphocytic leukaemia and Waldenström's macroglobulinemia.
The EMA has announced its approval for marketing authorisation in the EU for Vitrakvi (larotrectinib), used to treat solid tumours with a specific gene mutation.
The EMA has given its approval recommendation to three drugs and announced negative opinions for approval on others.
Amglidia is a new formulation of glibenclamide, specifically developed for use in newborns, toddlers and children...
The EMA has recommended granting a marketing authorisation in the EU for Lamzede a long-term enzyme replacement therapy for alpha-mannosidosis...
Novartis announced that the European Commission approved ribociclib in combination with an aromatase inhibitor for treatment of postmenopausal women with metastatic breast cancer
28 April 2017 | By Niamh Marriott, Junior Editor
The European Medicine Agency's CHMP has adopted a positive opinion for the marketing authorisation of Sanofi and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals’ Kevzara...
26 April 2017 | By Niamh Marriott, Junior Editor
CHMP has adopted a positive opinion for the company's MAA for Brineura to treat children with Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis Type 2 disease...
25 April 2017 | By Niamh Marriott, Junior Editor
The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has adopted positive opinions, separately recommending the approval of both Sandoz's (a Novartis division) biosimilar rituximab and biosimilar etanercept in Europe, to treat the same indications as their respective reference medicines.
2 March 2017 | By Niamh Marriott, Digital Editor
The European Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has granted a positive opinion for Abbvie’s shorter, eight-week treatment of Viekirax (ombitasvir/paritaprevir/ritonavir tablets) + Exviera (dasabuvir tablets) as an option for previously untreated adult patients with geotype 1b chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV)…