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FDA Suspends Muscular Dystrophy Drug After 3 Patient Deaths
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA) has placed an immediate clinical hold on Sarepta Therapeutics' investigational ...
Sarepta Therapeutics crisis is huge blow to Duchenne families, company
Sarepta rebuffed a call from the Food and Drug Administration to halt all shipments of its gene therapy for Duchenne muscular ...
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Sarepta Suspends Gene Therapy Shipments After Tragic Deaths
Sarepta Therapeutics has paused U.S. shipments of its gene therapy Elevidys after two teenagers with Duchenne muscular ...
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We are mothers of Duchenne patients. Recent setbacks with Sarepta must not stop progress
As mothers of children with this disease, we have wept helplessly in recent months as friends — fellow members of a club we ...
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Sarepta LGMD trials all hit by FDA hold amid newly surfaced safety concerns over gene therapy
The Sarepta saga continues, with the FDA slapping a clinical hold across all of the company’s investigational limb-girdle ...
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Duchenne Gene Therapy Will Undergo Changes After Patient Deaths
At the FDA's request, delandistrogene moxeparvovec (Elevidys), the only approved gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy ...
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FDA weighs new study requirements for Sarepta to confirm safety of gene therapy Elevidys: report
Sarepta would need to conduct new analyses to validate the safety of Elevidys—which has had U.S. shipments paused by the ...
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Drugmaker Refuses FDA's Request to Pull Gene Therapy Tied to Patient Deaths
The agency also revoked Sarepta's platform technology designation for AAVrh74 Friday and issued a safety communication saying the agency was investigating the three deaths due to acute liver failure ...
FDA asks Sarepta to stop shipping Duchenne gene therapy
The company refused the FDA’s request and will continue shipping its therapy, Elevidys, to Duchenne patients who can still ...
Sarepta drops as report suggests FDA needs new trials for Elevidys
Sarepta Therapeutics (SRPT) stock drops as the company faces potential FDA-mandated studies after safety concerns over its ...
Sarepta to pause Elevidys gene therapy shipments in U.S.
Sarepta Therapeutics (SRPT) said late Monday it will pause all shipments of its Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene therapy, ...
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Sarepta, bowing to FDA pressure, pauses shipments of Duchenne gene therapy Elevidys
A brief skirmish between Sarepta Therapeutics and the FDA has ended before escalating into a full-on regulatory clash, as the company has bowed to the agency’s demand. | A brief skirmish between ...