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FDA Approves Mepolizumab for COPD
Mepolizumab has had a bumpy road to arriving at its indication in COPD. An FDA advisory committee in 2018 declined to ...
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FDA approves GSK’s Nucala to treat COPD
GSK respiratory, immunology and inflammation research and development (R&D) global head and senior vice-president Kaivan ...
Patients with COPD and type 2 inflammation receiving mepolizumab vs. placebo had decreased moderate and severe exacerbation ...
The approval tees GSK up to challenge Sanofi and Regeneron, which in September 2024 won the first biologic approval for COPD ...
FDA approves mepolizumab (Nucala; GSK) as the first monthly biologic for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), significantly reducing exacerbations in patients with an eosinophilic phenotype.
Nucula’s new indication is as an add-on therapy for patients with COPD who also have an elevated blood eosinophil count.
We have developed a new, multidimensional diagnostic schema for COPD that incorporates spirometry, symptoms, and imaging and ...
The schema newly classified 15.4% of persons without airflow obstruction as having COPD by minor diagnostic category, Surya P ...
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Women with COPD, asthma, and OSA may go undiagnosed or without proper care because their symptomatology differs from the male ...
The FDA granted approval to mepolizumab for treating adults with inadequately controlled COPD and an eosinophilic phenotype, ...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Nucala (mepolizumab) for the add-on maintenance treatment of adult patients with inadequately controlled chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD ...