ViroPharma Gets Good News And Bad News On Cinryze From FDA
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
sBLA for acute angioedema treatment gets a “complete response,” putting Cinryze into the losers’ bracket contesting for the first U.S. acute HAE approval. Drug’s prophylactic labeling, meanwhile, is amended to allow self-administration.
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