Pharmaceutical Commerce Editorial Staff

The newly approved Alinity m high risk human papillomavirus (HPV) assay is indicated to detect HPV and for use in routine cervical cancer screening per professional medical guidelines.

Phathom Pharmaceuticals announced that it anticipates vonoprazan (Voquenza) to be commercially available by December 2023.

The branded form of secukinumab is currently the only FDA-approved fully human biologic that directly inhibits interleukin-17A.

Abatacept is indicated across multiple inflammatory conditions, including for the treatment of adult patients with moderately to severely active rheumatoid arthritis, pediatric patients with moderately to severely active polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis, and active juvenile psoriatic arthritis.

The FDA granted Wezlana with interchangeable designation after clinical trials found no clinically significant differences in safety and efficacy for the indicated conditions across multiple inflammatory diseases.

The approval of pembrolizumab (Keytruda; Merck) combined with gemcitabine and cisplatin for the treatment locally advanced unresectable or metastatic biliary tract cancer is the sixth sixth indication for the anti-PD-1 therapy for gastrointestinal cancers.