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FDA Suspends Muscular Dystrophy Drug After 3 Patient Deaths
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA) has placed an immediate clinical hold on Sarepta Therapeutics' investigational ...
Precision BioSciences Receives FDA Orphan Drug Designation for PBGENE-DMD for the Treatment of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Precision BioSciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: DTIL), a clinical stage gene editing company utilizing its novel proprietary ARCUS® ...
Sarepta Therapeutics says it will pause shipments of Duchenne gene therapy
Shipments will halt by close of business Tuesday evening, the company said. Sarepta had initially rejected the agency’s ...
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Roche halts some shipments of Sarepta’s Duchenne gene therapy outside U.S.
Roche is following its partner Sarepta and halting shipments of the Duchenne gene therapy Elevidys in some countries, amid ...
Mum's desperate plea as son, 7, diagnosed with rare muscle-wasting disease
Evan Winter was diagnosed him with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) earlier this year which only around 2,500 people have in ...
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Following Sarepta’s Lead, Roche Suspends Elevidys Shipments to Some Ex-US Countries
Discovered and developed by Sarepta Therapeutics, Elevidys is a gene therapy that won accelerated approval in June 2023 and ...
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Roche halts Elevidys distribution in some countries, following Sarepta's lead in US
Roche is pausing shipments of Elevidys in some countries, following partner Sarepta Therapeutics’ move in the U.S., as safety ...
Sarepta stock faces multiple downgrades and questions of solvency amid Elevidys pause
For Sarepta, the hits keep coming, with several downgrades in the past week after it was forced to temporarily take its ...
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In surprise reversal, Sarepta Therapeutics says it will pause shipments of Duchenne gene therapy
Sarepta will halt all shipments of Elevidys, its drug for Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients, by Tuesday evening.
Sarepta to pause Elevidys gene therapy shipments in U.S.
Sarepta Therapeutics (SRPT) said late Monday it will pause all shipments of its Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene therapy, ...
InnovationRx: Sarepta Blinks In Showdown With FDA
In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at Moderna’s use of quantum computers, a new top drug regulator at the FDA, ...
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Roche pauses gene therapy shipments
Roche has halted some international shipments of the gene therapy Elevidys, used to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Bloomberg reported July 22. The decision comes in the wake of a similar move by ...