BI, GSK, Novartis hale and hearty at COPD party
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
It has been an eventful week in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). New safety data emerged for Spiriva Respimat (tiotropium; Boehringer Ingelheim) and encouraging analyses from Novartis’ LABA/LAMA Ultibro Breezhaler from the European Respiratory Society (ERS) Annual Congress: while Anoro (umeclidinium/vilanterol), GlaxoSmithKline’s fixed-dose long-acting beta 2 agonist/long-acting muscarinic antagonist (LABA/LAMA) inhaler, has been recommended for approval by the US FDA Pulmonary-Allergy Drugs Advisory Committee (PADAC).