Friday, 2 August 2013

GlaxoSmithKline diabetes drug faces U.S. approval delay

The GlaxoSmithKline building is pictured in Hounslow, west London LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators have pushed back an approval decision on GlaxoSmithKline's experimental diabetes drug albiglutide by three months until April 15, 2014, Britain's biggest drugmaker said on Friday. A separate filing for the drug in Europe is progressing on schedule. The once-weekly treatment for type 2 diabetes belongs to the same class of injectable GLP-1 drugs as Victoza, from Novo Nordisk, and Byetta and Bydureon, from Bristol-Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca. ...




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