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STAT+: GSK picks up hep B drug approval
Nutrition · Words by Elaine Chen and Andrew Joseph · Released
GSK has won FDA approval for its hepatitis B drug, which extended functional cures to far more patients than previous methods.
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Good morning. Last spring, my colleague received an intriguing email from Mark Cuban. From there, a story was born. Read on for more.
The need-to-know this morning
- Roivant and its subsidiary Priovant announced positive results across two Phase 3 studies of their drug Lisraya in non-infectious uveitis, an inflammatory eye disease that can lead to vision loss. Lisraya was recently approved to treat dermatomyositis, another inflammatory condition. Roivant said it will seek an expanded FDA approval for Lisraya in the first half of 2027.
Cuban’s Cost Plus Drugs is getting into rare disease
Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drugs, the online pharmacy that aims to lower drug costs by bypassing middlemen, has mostly been selling generic drugs. But the company is getting into a much more complicated field — experimental rare disease therapies.
