FDA Approval For Novartis’s Sickle Cell Treatment Adakveo
Gains Nod Ahead Of Global Blood Therapeutics’ Contender
Executive Summary
One of a new wave of treatments, Novartis has focused on proving its drug cuts vaso-occlusive crises (VOCs), or pain crises.
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