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New EU Submissions For Pfizer’s Lorlatinib, Teva’s Fremanezumab - And A CV Filing For Canakinumab

 
• By Ian Schofield

New products submitted for evaluation by the European Medicines Agency include Pfizer’s lorlatinib for lung cancer, Teva’s fremanezumab for migraine, and Shionogi’s lusutrombopag for thrombocytopenia. An already authorized drug, Novartis’s canakinumab, has been filed for a new use: reduction of cardiovascular risk.

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Several products are newly under evaluation by the EMA

Potential new treatments for lung cancer, migraine and thrombocytopenia are among the filings that have recently been submitted to the European Medicines Agency and are now being evaluated by its main scientific committee, the CHMP.

Among the new products on the CHMP's list of drugs under review are Pfizer Inc.’s lorlatinib for non-small cell lung cancer, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.’s fremanezumab for migraine, and Shionogi & Co. Ltd.’s lusutrombopag for thrombocytopenia

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