FDA to Ask Sarepta to Halt Elevidys Shipments
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Three patients with a muscle-wasting disease died from liver failure after taking the therapy, Elevidys, or a similar treatment.
The commercial and clinical use of Elevidys was discontinued after two fatal cases of acute liver failure.
The drastic cost-cutting move follows the deaths of two teenagers that forced the company to restrict usage of its gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Sarepta Therapeutics said a second patient had died after receiving its $3.2 million gene therapy to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Sarepta Therapeutics will cut 500 jobs and add a serious warning on the label of its muscle-disorder gene therapy Elevidys, the drugmaker said on Wednesday, following the recent deaths of two patients who were on the medicine.
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