Wiehl (8. Juni 2021) — Die US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) hat in einem beschleunigten Verfahren Aducanumab (Aduhelm®) zur Behandlung der Alzheimer-Krankheit zugelassen. Die Hersteller-Firma Biogen wurde aber aufgefordert, eine weitere klinische Studie, die nicht Plazebo-kontrolliert ist, durchzuführen, um den klinischen Nutzen des Medikaments zu überprüfen. Falls diese sog. Phase IV Studie den
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  Düsseldorf (8. Juni 2021) — Der Alzheimer-Wirkstoff Aducanumab hat von der U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) eine Zulassung mit Auflagen erhalten. Aducanumab ist damit der erste neue Alzheimer-Wirkstoff seit 2002. Begleitend muss der Hersteller Biogen die Wirksamkeit des Antikörpers mit einer weiteren Studie nachweisen. Biogen hat bei der Europäischen Arzneimittel-Agentur EMA auch einen
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  Treatment approved for approximately 90% of patients with cystic fibrosis, many of whom had no approved therapeutic options   Silver Spring, MD, USA (October 21, 2019) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Trikafta (elexacaftor/ivacaftor/tezacaftor), the first triple combination therapy available to treat patients with the most common cystic fibrosis mutation. Trikafta
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  Silver Spring, MD, USA (October 1, 2019) — Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is informing patients, health care professionals, IT staff in health care facilities and manufacturers of a set of cybersecurity vulnerabilities, referred to as “URGENT/11,” that—if exploited by a remote attacker—may introduce risks for medical devices and hospital networks. URGENT/11
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  Silver Spring, MD, USA (August 28, 2019) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Nourianz (istradefylline) tablets as an add-on treatment to levodopa/carbidopa in adult patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) experiencing “off” episodes. An “off” episode is a time when a patient’s medications are not working well, causing an increase in PD
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  Silver Spring, MD, USA (July 17, 2019) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Recarbrio (imipenem, cilastatin and relebactam), an antibacterial drug product to treat adults with complicated urinary tract infections (cUTI) and complicated intra-abdominal infections (cIAI). “The FDA remains focused on facilitating the development of safe and effective new antibacterial drugs
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Gilenya (fingolimod): FDA Drug Safety Communication – Severe Worsening of Multiple Sclerosis After Stopping the Medicine   Silver Spring, MD, USA (November 20, 2018) – FDA is warning that when the multiple sclerosis (MS) medicine Gilenya (fingolimod) is stopped, the disease can become much worse than before the medicine was started or while it was
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