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FDA clears Hyperion’s Ravicti for urea cycle disorders

Plans to launch in US by end of April

- PMLiVE

FDA advisors back Boehringer’s COPD drug olodaterol

Committee votes 15 to 1 in favour despite cancer concerns

Sanofi reception

US approval for Sanofi’s Kynamro in genetic cholesterol disorder

Comes one month after drug was turned down in Europe due to safety concerns

Lonafarnib: promising results in first-ever trial for progeria

Treatments for progeria are limited but lonafarnib and FTIs as a class have given renewed hope for children with the condition

- PMLiVE

Roche’s Avastin gains new US colon cancer approval

Patients can continue to use drug once disease progresses

- PMLiVE

FDA approves first egg-free flu vaccine Flublok

Insect virus production method means more vaccine can be produced at a faster rate

- PMLiVE

FDA fast tracks two new lung cancer drugs

Boehringer’s afatinib and Roche/Astellas’ Tarveca receive accelerated review process

- PMLiVE

Scotland launches £21m fund for rare conditions

Will pay for orphan medicines not recommended by the SMC

- PMLiVE

PatientsLikeMe takes aim at one of world’s rarest diseases

Creates open registry and community for alkaptonuria patients

- PMLiVE

J&J gets FDA panel backing for canagliflozin

Moves ahead of BMS/AZ’s Forxiga in race for US approval as first in new class of diabetes drug

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