FDA backs added indication for GSK’s Promacta
The Food and Drug Administration has approved UK pharma giant GlaxoSmithKline’s (LSE: GSK) supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for the once-daily use of Promacta (eltrombopag) in patients with severe aplastic anemia (SAA) who have had an insufficient response to immunosuppressive therapy (IST).
SAA is a blood disorder where the bone marrow fails to make enough red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets.Eltrombopag, an oral thrombopoietin (TPO) receptor agonist, works by helping to induce proliferation and differentiation of bone marrow stem cells to increase production of blood cells.1
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