The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved GSK's Nucala (mepolizumab) as an add-on maintenance treatment for adult ...

The COPD approval marks the fifth Nucala has received from the FDA, following green lights in severe asthma, chronic ...

The approval tees GSK up to challenge Sanofi and Regeneron, which in September 2024 won the first biologic approval for COPD ...

Nucala, an anti–interleukin-5 (IL-5) monoclonal antibody developed by GSK, was associated with a sustained reduction in emergency department (ED) visits, hospitalisations, and symptom burden for ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Nucala (mepolizumab) for the add-on maintenance treatment of adult patients with inadequately controlled chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD ...

Nucula’s new indication is as an add-on therapy for patients with COPD who also have an elevated blood eosinophil count.

Approval of Nucala marks the first biologic approved for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients with blood eosinophil counts as low as ≥150 cells/μL. The FDA has approved GSK’s Nucala ...

Nucala stands out as the only approved biologic that has been specifically evaluated in patients whose eosinophilic phenotype is defined by a blood eosinophil count (BEC) threshold as low as ≥ ...