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STAT+: Colorado lawmakers revise effort to exempt rare disease drugs from state cost caps

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In response to controversy, a group of Colorado lawmakers is abandoning a bill that would have required a new state board — which is chartered with setting caps for the cost of medicines — to create exemptions for rare disease drugs.

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PharmaShots Weekly Snapshots (June 19 – 23, 2023)

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Gilead Receives EMA’s CHMP Positive Opinion of Trodelvy (sacituzumab govitecan) for Pre-Treated HR+/HER2- Metastatic Breast Cancer Date: June 23, 2023 | Tags: Gilead, Trodelvy, sacituzumab govitecan, HR+/HER2- Metastatic Breast Cancer, Regulatory, EMA, CHMP, Positive Opinion Sarepta Therapeutics’ Elevidys Receives the US FDA’s Accelerated (..)

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Jolly Good/Teijin Pharma develop VR digital therapeutics for depression

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Teijin Pharma is part of Teijin Group, a multinational offering services in high-performance materials, healthcare including pharma and IT. In 2019 Cognitant and Addenbrook’s Hospital in Cambridge, UK piloted a programme that aimed to educate patients to improve adherence to rheumatoid arthritis medicines.

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FDA gives AbbVie’s c-Met lung cancer ADC a breakthrough tag

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The FDA thinks an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) developed by AbbVie could set new standards in treatment for certain patients with lung cancer, awarding the drug breakthrough status. overall response rate (ORR) in patients with high levels of c-Met expression, and 25% in those with intermediate levels, showing proof of concept for the ADC.

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Drug-resistant epilepsy drug Ontozry backed by NICE

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NHS patients in England and Wales with drug-resistant epilepsy are in line for access to another treatment option, after NICE recommended routine use of Angelini group company Arvelle Pharma’s Ontozry. The drug was eventually cleared in the EU in April, with the UK giving it a green light in June.

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ASH: Argenx cues up a second use for efgartigimod

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Updated results from the ADVANCE IV study of Vyvgart (efgartigimod alfa) showed that more than half of patients with ITP treated with Argenx’ drug showed an improvement in platelet counts, which are dramatically reduced in the disorder. After 24 weeks, 21.8% After 24 weeks, 21.8% All told, 51.2%

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With rivals threatening, Argenx scores key myasthenia gravis win

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Vyvgart (efgartigimod alfa) became the first drug in the FcRn class to be approved by the FDA last December, and despite a $225,000 annual price tag is predicted to make relatively modest sales in its IV version, which will compete with other IV gMG drugs like AstraZeneca/Alexion’s C5 inhibitor Soliris (eculizumab). in the IV arm.

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