Keeping Track: US FDA's Late Summer Approval Extravaganza Stars Three Novel Agents, Features Return Of Mylotarg

Kymriah, Vabomere, and benzidazole approvals joined by new indications for Austedo, Faslodex.

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FDA has been closing out the summer with a rash of approvals, including three novel agents. Novartis AG's Kymriah, the first CAR-T cell therapy, may have dominated headlines, but FDA also approved a new antibiotic (The Medicines Co.s Vabomere) and benznidazole, the first Chagas disease therapy.

FDA also cleared the return to market of Pfizer Inc.'s Mylotarg, a hematologic oncology agent that was withdrawn in 2000, and a new first-line indication for AstraZeneca PLC's...

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