Idorsia’s Novel Hypertension Pill Among Eight New Drugs To Win EMA Nod

The European Medicines Agency believes Idorsia’s Jeraygo should be approved for use in the EU at two different doses rather than just the one approved by the US Food and Drug Administration last month.

The EU is set to approve the first new oral antihypertensive drug in almost 40 years that works via a new pathway • Source: Shutterstock

Jeraygo (aprocitentan), Idorsia’s first-of-its-kind treatment for resistant hypertension, is among the latest batch of new drugs that the European Medicines Agency today announced should be approved for marketing across the EU.

If approved by the European Commission, Jeraygo will become the EU’s first endothelin receptor antagonist for treating resistant hypertension in adults in combination with at least three antihypertensive medicines, and the first new oral

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