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New Drug Report 2020 -11

New Drug Report 2020 -11

16 Metabolic Disease Drugs In February, the FDA approved Esperion Therapeutics’ Nexletol and Nexlizet respectively. On the basis of controlling diet and taking the maximum tolerated dose of statins, both […]

New Drug Report 2020 -10

New Drug Report 2020 -10

The Janus kinase (JAK1) inhibitor Figotinib (Jyseleca; Gilead) was approved in Japan and the European Union in September 2020. The approved indication in Japan is the treatment of patients with […]

New Drug Report 2020 -9

New Drug Report 2020 -9

13 Anti-tumor drugs Trastuzumab deruxtecan (Enhertu), an antibody drug conjugate (ADC) developed by Japan’s Daiichi Sankyo and authorized by AstraZeneca for co-development and commercialization, was approved by the FDA at […]

New Drug Report 2020 -8

New Drug Report 2020 -8

12 Immunomodulators and immunotherapy drugs AimmuneTherapeutautics has achieved an important goal this year: Palforzia (Arachishypogaea allergen powder-dnfp) was approved by the FDA and listed for the first time. Palforzia is […]

New Drug Report 2020 -7

New Drug Report 2020 -7

11 Anti-infective drugs The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic will linger in everyone’s memory forever. In this year, Remdesivir (Veklury; Gilead), as the first anti-viral treatment of the disease, obtained rapid development […]

New Drug Report 2020 -6

New Drug Report 2020 -6

09 Endocrine drugs Eli Lilly’s Lyumjev is a fast-acting insulin used to improve blood glucose control in adults with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. It was approved in the […]

New Drug Report 2020 -5

New Drug Report 2020 -5

06 Kidney-urinary system drugs Lupus nephritis is the main cause of morbidity and death in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). About 40% of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus will […]

New Drug Report 2020 -4

New Drug Report 2020 -4

05 Cardiovascular system drugs The sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT-2) inhibitor dapagliflozin (Andaton; AstraZeneca) has been on the market as a hypoglycemic agent for nearly 10 years. Another indication of the […]

New Drug Report 2020 -3

New Drug Report 2020 -3

02 Analgesics and anesthetics In 2020, two new benzodiazepines have been approved. The first was Remimazolam Tosilate (Rebenin) developed by Jiangsu Hengrui, which was listed in China for sedation during […]

New Drug Report 2020 -2

New Drug Report 2020 -2

01 Nervous system drugs The drug paroxysmal sleep disease of nervous system is a kind of chronic nervous system disease which makes people weak, which is characterized by excessive daytime […]