According to Vertex Pharmaceuticals, approximately 300 additional people with CF are now eligible to receive treatment.
Participants were randomly assigned to receive Trikafta or placebo based on age and weight: Aged 6 to <12 years and less than 30kg: morning dose of elexacaftor 100mg/tezacaftor 50mg/ivacaftor 75mg ...
As Vertex Pharmaceuticals reels from a painful trial readout for its pain candidate suzetrigine, the Boston biotech has chalked up a win in its specialty area of cystic fibrosis. The FDA has ...
The agency’s main drug review office cleared 50 novel medicines last year, short of 2018’s record total but on the higher end ...
Vertex is also evaluating Alyftrek in children with cystic fibrosis aged 2 to 5 years ... Vertex announced that the FDA has expanded Trikafta’s label to include an additional 94 non-F508del ...
Vertex has won two cystic fibrosis approvals from the FDA, but the agency included high-level safety warnings.
TRIKAFTA, a combination of elexacaftor, tezacaftor, and ivacaftor, is designed to enhance the function of the defective protein caused by cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR ...
In March 2022, the Competition Commission launched a complaint against Vertex Pharmaceuticals for alleged unfair practices and high pricing of cystic fibrosis drugs. Cystic fibrosis is a rare ...
TRIKAFTA, a combination of elexacaftor, tezacaftor, and ivacaftor, is designed to enhance the function of the defective protein caused by cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) ...
CFTR modulators like Alyftek and Trikafta work to improve protein function and slow disease progression but still don’t benefit every patient with cystic fibrosis. This leaves a gap in treatment ...
“Since its first approval in 2019, TRIKAFTA has had a transformative impact on tens of thousands of people living with cystic fibrosis,” said Carmen Bozic, M.D., Executive Vice ...