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FDA’s Prasad Exits Following Political Backlash Over Sarepta
Vinay Prasad, a top regulator at the US Food and Drug Administration, has left the agency after a controversy over his ...
Sarepta Soars After FDA Says Some Patients Can Get Elevidys
In a major win for Sarepta Therapeutics Inc., US regulators are recommending that patients who can walk be allowed to take ...
The Sarepta Mugging and Drug Innovation
The Trump FDA tries to kill a therapy that has helped boys with a deadly diagnosis.
Sarepta will resume gene therapy shipments after FDA review of recent patient death
Shares of drugmaker Sarepta Therapeutics surged in afterhours trading Monday after the company said it would resume shipping ...
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FDA takes U-turn on Sarepta's Elevidys, backing Duchenne gene therapy again in ambulatory patients
Monday, the FDA said Sarepta may resume treating ambulatory DMD patients with Elevidys. The recommendation comes just 10 days ...
Sarepta Therapeutics Stock Surges as FDA Allows Elevidys Sales to Resume
Shares of Sarepta Therapeutics surged Tuesday morning after the company said it had been informed by the Food and Drug ...
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Sarepta stands behind Elevidys after FDA requests gene therapy be pulled from market
As the controversy over the safety of Sarepta Therapeutics’ gene therapies comes to a head, the biotech is standing firm ...
InnovationRx: Sarepta Blinks In Showdown With FDA
In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at Moderna’s use of quantum computers, a new top drug regulator at the FDA, ...
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FDA permits use of Sarepta Therapeutics’ Duchenne therapy in younger patients after short-lived halt
The FDA said it was clearing the way for Sarepta Therapeutics to resume shipments of its gene therapy for Duchenne muscular ...
Gene therapy maker Sarepta tells FDA it won’t halt shipments despite patient deaths
Drugmaker Sarepta Therapeutics says it won’t comply with a request from U.S. regulators to halt all shipments of its gene ...
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Pharmalittle: We’re reading about a new Novo Nordisk CEO, an FDA reversal on Sarepta, and more
Novo Nordisk tapped Maziar Mike Doustdar, its head of international operations, as its new chief executive officer and ...
FDA probes death of patient on Sarepta's Elevidys, partner Roche says death unrelated to therapy
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday it was investigating the death of an eight-year-old boy who received ...