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Amgen’s Soliris biosimilar clears phase 3, but won’t launch until 2025

pharmaphorum

The biotech has confirmed it will not launch the biosimilar until March 2025 however, honouring the terms of its 2020 agreement with Alexion that resolved litigation over the validity of patents covering Soliris (eculizumab) in the US.

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STAT+: Akili abandons prescription business model, to lay off 40% of workers

STAT

In connection with the move away from prescription sales, Akili will reduce its workforce by 40%, which the company projects will extend its runway into the second half of 2025. Akili went public last year and though its prescription sales were slowly increasing, the company’s costs far outstripped its revenues.

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GLP-1 receptor agonist shortage warning extended by UK Government until end of 2024

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

And it warned prescribers not to prescribe GLP-1 RAs licensed for type 2 diabetes for off-label indications. In July, Novo Nordisk – the manufacturer of several GLP-1 RAs such as liraglutide and semaglutide – said it envisaged intermittent supply until 2025, despite running factories 24/7 to increase production.

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Getting Quality Supplements

The Thyroid Pharmacist

This is because I had learned about various adulterants found in supplements, how some supplement manufacturers don’t actually put the products that are on the label in the bottle, or that the dosages listed on the label may be completely different from what’s in the products. We have 270 expiring in March 2025.)

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FDA Publishes Proposal to Redefine the Implied Nutrient Contain Claim “Healthy” Changing Focus to Foods Rather than Nutrients Adding Limits on Added Sugar Content

The FDA Law Blog

In 2015, FDA issued a Warning Letter to Kind LLC because, among other things, the company labeled products as healthy whereas these products provided more saturated fat per serving than permitted by the regulatory definition. It is focused on the nutrients in the food product rather than on it overall nutritional “quality.”.

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Eli Lilly achieving significant gains in obesity results

Pharmaceutical Technology

Mounjaro’s approval in 2022 for T2D has already led to many prescribers providing the therapy off-label to their patients to help them lose weight. Lilly is currently in the midst of initiating a head-to-head Phase IIIb trial for Mounjaro in comparison to Wegovy, which the company expects to conclude in early 2025.

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WuXi STA breaks ground on new Delaware manufacturing facility

European Pharmaceutical Review

The second facility for WuXi STA in the US, Phase I of the new campus will provide formulation development, clinical and commercial drug product manufacturing services for a variety of oral and injectable dosage forms, as well as packaging, labelling, storage and distribution services for clinical trial materials and commercial drug products.