FDA Approval For Novartis’s Sickle Cell Treatment Adakveo

Gains Nod Ahead Of Global Blood Therapeutics’ Contender

One of a new wave of treatments, Novartis has focused on proving its drug cuts vaso-occlusive crises (VOCs), or pain crises.

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Adakveo is Novartis' sixth FDA approval of 2019 • Source: Novartis

The US Food and Drug Administration approved on 15 November Novartis’s Adakveo, a new treatment to reduce vaso-occlusive crises (VOCs), or pain crises in sickle cell disease.

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