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Supplemental applications have been submitted for the cancer therapies Nubeqa and Tibsovo, the gout treatment Krystexxa, and Oxlumo, which treats a rare disease.

FDA approved Legend Biotech’s chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) treatment, Carvykti (ciltacabtagene autoleucel; cilta- cel), to treat relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM) who have received four or more prior lines of therapy.

Despite the promise of savings billions of dollars in the United States, adoption of biosimilars has been slow. A roundtable discussion among employers highlighted some of the barriers, including formulary design and drug pricing and rebates.

The CDC released the first real world data February 15 in a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) that infants younger than 6 months were overall 61% less likely to be hospitalized from COVID-19 if their mothers were vaccinated during pregnancy through completion of a 2-dose primary mRNA COVID-19 vaccine series with either Pfizer-BioNTech (Comirnaty) or Moderna (Spikevax).