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Dr. Raymond Douglas weighs Amgen’s Tepezza as Viridian’s Lumvoa widens TED choices

Amgen’s Tepezza is facing a broader thyroid eye disease treatment landscape after Viridian Therapeutics’ Lumvoa became another approved option, shifting attention toward how physicians may weigh evidence, safety, treatment burden and patient fit. Dr. Raymond Douglas, MD, PhD, who served as principal investigator in the international Tepezza trials that supported its United States Food and

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Jubereq launch: Accord BioPharma challenges Xgeva in cancer-related bone complications

Accord BioPharma launches Osvyrti and Jubereq as interchangeable denosumab biosimilars, testing price, payer access and provider adoption.

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FDA approves Lumvoa for thyroid eye disease as Viridian enters commercial biotech

See how Lumvoa’s FDA approval could reshape thyroid eye disease treatment, challenge Tepezza and test Viridian’s launch strategy.

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Can Minghui Pharmaceutical’s MHB018A challenge established thyroid eye disease therapies?

Find out how Minghui Pharmaceutical’s MHB018A could reshape thyroid eye disease treatment as Phase III trials test its promise.

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Is Amgen’s bispecific lung cancer drug becoming a global standard after chemotherapy failure?

Amgen’s Imdylltra has European approval in relapsed small cell lung cancer. Survival data now face reimbursement and adoption tests.

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Amgen acquires Dark Blue Therapeutics to expand targeted AML degradation strategy

Amgen has acquired United Kingdom-based Dark Blue Therapeutics Ltd. in a deal valued at up to $840 million, adding a first-in-class preclinical asset to its early oncology pipeline. The investigational small molecule, designed to degrade MLLT1 and MLLT3 proteins, targets transcriptional dependencies in acute myeloid leukemia. With preclinical data suggesting anti-leukemic activity and mechanistic differentiation,

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Why Verastem Oncology’s KRAS G12C trial exit reveals a calculated pivot to next-generation lung cancer targets

Verastem exits its G12C lung cancer trial to prioritize VS-7375, a next-gen G12D inhibitor showing promise. Find out how this pivot could change KRAS therapy.

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Amgen adds Aimovig and Amjevita to TrumpRx platform in latest move to defuse U.S. pricing pressure

Amgen has expanded its direct-to-patient program, AmgenNow, to include Aimovig (erenumab-aooe) and Amjevita (adalimumab-atto), each now available at a flat monthly price of $299 for eligible U.S. patients. This development forms part of Amgen’s broader agreement with the Trump Administration, satisfying conditions laid out in the President’s July 31 policy letter and positioning the company

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Is twice-yearly dosing the future of autoimmune care? Inside Amgen’s UPLIZNA playbook for chronic neurology

When Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had approved UPLIZNA (inebilizumab-cdon) for adults with generalized myasthenia gravis (gMG), the industry’s attention snapped not just to the therapy’s mechanism but to its twice-yearly maintenance schedule. For patients, this marks a seismic shift away from the exhausting cycle of daily oral immunosuppressants

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Can B-cell depletion change how we treat generalized myasthenia gravis?

Amgen has received approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration for Uplizna (inebilizumab-cdon) to treat adults with generalized myasthenia gravis who are anti-acetylcholine receptor or anti-muscle specific tyrosine kinase antibody positive. The greenlight makes Uplizna the first and only CD19-targeted B cell therapy approved for this patient population, introducing a twice-yearly dosing regimen

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