Keeping Track: Tpoxx Wins Green Light For Smallpox, Submissions Galore, And A Broader Approval For Xtandi

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The biggest event this week in US review and approval news came at the end of it: Siga Technologies Inc.'s smallpox drug Tpoxx (tecovirimat) picked up the US FDA's blessing July 13, becoming the first product to land a Material Threat Medical Countermeasure priority review voucher under the 21st Century Cures Act, and also the first agency-backed smallpox drug.

But Topxx wasn't the only product to have a first. Highlighting a busy week of filings, Enzyvant Sciences Ltd.'s...

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