An investigator-led trial of Jazz Pharma's cannabis extract-based drug Sativex in glioblastoma – an aggressive form of brain cancer - will get underway in the UK next year.
Jazz Pharma has agreed a $7.2 billion deal to by GW Pharmaceuticals and its pioneering cannabis-derived medicines, headed by childhood epilepsy drug Epidiolex.
Harmony Biosciences has scored an expanded use for its Wakix narcolepsy drug to include cataplexy – a symptom of the sleep disorder that can cause total body collapse.
The FDA has approved Jazz Pharmaceuticals’ sleep disorder drug Xywav, to treat daytime sleepiness in patients with narcolepsy, offering a regime with less sodium than standard therapy.
PharmaMar and Jazz Pharmaceuticals have announced the FDA has granted a six-month Priority Review for their lurbinectedin for relapsed small cell lung cancer (SCLC).