by PEPID Newsroom | Jun 21, 2019 | Alerts
FDA approves bremelanotide (Vyleesi, AMAG Pharmaceuticals) to treat acquired, generalized hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD) in premenopausal women. Bremelanotide is the first-in-class melanocortin 4 receptor agonist for HSDD, and joins Flibanserin as...
by PEPID Newsroom | Jun 4, 2019 | Alerts
Emgality (gacanezumab-gnlm) solution has been FDA approved for treatment of episodic cluster headache in adults, the first of its kind. Emgality was approved in 2018 to prevent migraines in adults, and now has shown to reduce the frequency of cluster headache attaches...
by PEPID Newsroom | May 23, 2019 | Alerts, Pharmacy
Every year, the US FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) releases a list of newly-approved novel drugs and therapeutic biological products. Last year’s Novel Drug Approvals list holds the record for the most number of approved drugs, effectively...
by Anna Tan | Aug 3, 2018 | Nursing, Pharmacy, Primary Care
On July 20, 2018, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first acute myeloid leukemia treatment. It is the first approved targeted cancer therapy for patients with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia (R/R AML), specifically, those screened...
by Meredith Cunningham | Nov 28, 2017 | Emergency Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Primary Care
There’s a new immunotherapy approach that could change the way cancer is treated in the future. It’s called CAR-T cell therapy and it’s showing promising results in small clinical trials treating children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and adults with...
