Fasenra is the second biologic approved for the condition. The decision follows a positive opinion from the Committee for ...

GlaxoSmithKline has asked the US regulator to expand the licence of its injected lung drug mepolizumab, to include chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Under the brand name Nucala ...

Patients with asthma who switched biologics multiple times were younger, more likely to identify as Black, and had more ...

The new treatment will be a competitor of GSK’s Nucala (mepolizumab), which was approved in 2018 as the first targeted ...

There are currently five biologics approved to treat asthma, according to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology: omalizumab, mepolizumab, reslizumab, benralizumab, and dupilumab.

AstraZeneca’s Fasenra (benralizumab) has been approved in the European Union (EU) as an add-on treatment for adult patients with relapsing or refractory eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis ...

GlaxoSmithKline’s Nucala (mepolizumab) last month became the first and only biologic treatment approved in the US for Hypereosinophilic Syndrome (HES). It’s part of the company’s focus on ...

The CHMP’s recommendation is based on results from the MANDARA phase 3 trial, which compared efficacy and safety of benralizumab vs mepolizumab, the only approved treatment for EGPA, in patients ...

Fasenra has been approved in the European Union, EU, as an add-on treatment for adult patients with relapsing or ...

New indication supported by the MANDARA trial, which showed nearly 60% of patients achieved remission and 41% of patients fully stopped taking oral corticosteroidsAstraZeneca’s Fasenra (benralizumab) ...

Asthma is a heterogeneous disease more appropriately seen as a syndrome rather than a single pathologic entity. Although it can remain quiescent for extended time periods, the inflammatory and ...