DrugsPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-10-08DOI: 10.1007/s40265-024-02097-2
Yvette N Lamb
{"title":"Vorasidenib: First Approval.","authors":"Yvette N Lamb","doi":"10.1007/s40265-024-02097-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40265-024-02097-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Vorasidenib (VORANIGO<sup>®</sup>; Servier) is an orally administered, first-in-class, highly brain-penetrant dual inhibitor of mutant isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 and 2 (IDH1/2) enzymes being developed for use in IDH-mutant diffuse glioma. Vorasidenib received its first approval on 6 August 2024, in the USA, for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients aged 12 years and older with grade 2 astrocytoma or oligodendroglioma with a susceptible IDH1 or IDH2 mutation following surgery, including biopsy, sub-total resection, or gross total resection. Approval was based on results from the multinational phase III INDIGO trial, in which vorasidenib significantly improved progression-free survival and time to the next anticancer intervention relative to placebo. In the EU and other countries worldwide, regulatory review of vorasidenib in IDH-mutant glioma is currently underway. This article summarizes the milestones in the development of vorasidenib leading to this first approval for glioma.</p>","PeriodicalId":11482,"journal":{"name":"Drugs","volume":" ","pages":"1325-1331"},"PeriodicalIF":13.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142388923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DrugsPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-09-06DOI: 10.1007/s40265-024-02084-7
Tim Preijers, Anouk E Muller, Alan Abdulla, Brenda C M de Winter, Birgit C P Koch, Sebastiaan D T Sassen
{"title":"Dose Individualisation of Antimicrobials from a Pharmacometric Standpoint: The Current Landscape.","authors":"Tim Preijers, Anouk E Muller, Alan Abdulla, Brenda C M de Winter, Birgit C P Koch, Sebastiaan D T Sassen","doi":"10.1007/s40265-024-02084-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40265-024-02084-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Successful antimicrobial therapy depends on achieving optimal drug concentrations within individual patients. Inter-patient variability in pharmacokinetics (PK) and differences in pathogen susceptibility (reflected in the minimum inhibitory concentration, [MIC]) necessitate personalised approaches. Dose individualisation strategies aim to address this challenge, improving treatment outcomes and minimising the risk of toxicity and antimicrobial resistance. Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM), with the application of population pharmacokinetic (popPK) models, enables model-informed precision dosing (MIPD). PopPK models mathematically describe drug behaviour across populations and can be combined with patient-specific TDM data to optimise dosing regimens. The integration of machine learning (ML) techniques promises to further enhance dose individualisation by identifying complex patterns within extensive datasets. Implementing these approaches involves challenges, including rigorous model selection and validation to ensure suitability for target populations. Understanding the relationship between drug exposure and clinical outcomes is crucial, as is striking a balance between model complexity and clinical usability. Additionally, regulatory compliance, outcome measurement, and practical considerations for software implementation will be addressed. Emerging technologies, such as real-time biosensors, hold the potential for revolutionising TDM by enabling continuous monitoring, immediate and frequent dose adjustments, and near patient testing. The ongoing integration of TDM, advanced modelling techniques, and ML within the evolving digital health care landscape offers a potential for enhancing antimicrobial therapy. Careful attention to model development, validation, and ethical considerations of the applied techniques is paramount for successfully optimising antimicrobial treatment for the individual patient.</p>","PeriodicalId":11482,"journal":{"name":"Drugs","volume":" ","pages":"1167-1178"},"PeriodicalIF":13.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11512831/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142139627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DrugsPub Date : 2024-09-28DOI: 10.1007/s40265-024-02090-9
André J Scheen
{"title":"GLP-1 Receptor Agonists and SGLT2 Inhibitors in Type 2 Diabetes: Pleiotropic Cardiometabolic Effects and Add-on Value of a Combined Therapy.","authors":"André J Scheen","doi":"10.1007/s40265-024-02090-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40265-024-02090-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs) and sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2is) have proven efficacy and safety in randomized clinical trials and observational real-life studies. Besides improving glucose control, reducing body weight, and lowering arterial blood pressure (surrogate endpoints), the breakthroughs were the demonstration of a significant reduction in cardiovascular and renal events in patients with type 2 diabetes at high risk. GLP-1RAs reduce events linked to atherogenic cardiovascular disease (especially ischemic stroke) and also renal outcomes (FLOW trial with semaglutide), with a limited effect on heart failure. The most striking protective effects of SGLT2is were a marked reduction in hospitalization for heart failure and a remarkable reduced progression of chronic kidney disease. These benefits have been attributed to numerous pleiotropic effects beyond glucose-lowering action. Underlying mechanisms contributing to cardiovascular and renal protection are at least partially different between GLP-1RAs (mainly anti-atherogenic and vascular effects) and SGLT2is (mainly systemic and intrarenal hemodynamic changes). Thus, patients at high risk may benefit from complementary actions when being treated with a GLP-1RA/SGLT2i combination. Such combination has proven its efficacy on surrogate endpoints. Furthermore, post hoc subgroup analyses of cardiovascular outcome trials have suggested a greater cardiorenal protection in patients treated with a combination versus either monotherapy. The benefits of a combined therapy have been confirmed in a few retrospective cohort studies. A dedicated prospective trial comparing a combined therapy versus either monotherapy is ongoing (PRECIDENTD); however, several challenges still remain, especially the higher cost of a combined therapy and the worldwide underuse of either GLP-1RAs or SGLT2is in clinical practice, even in patients at high cardiorenal risk.</p>","PeriodicalId":11482,"journal":{"name":"Drugs","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142343765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DrugsPub Date : 2024-09-23DOI: 10.1007/s40265-024-02092-7
Xiaoyan Yi, Shumin Yang, Jun Yang, Xiangjun Chen, Aipin Zhang, Qinglian Zeng, Wenjin Luo, Qifu Li, Jinbo Hu
{"title":"Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System Modulators in Adults with Hypertension: A Network Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.","authors":"Xiaoyan Yi, Shumin Yang, Jun Yang, Xiangjun Chen, Aipin Zhang, Qinglian Zeng, Wenjin Luo, Qifu Li, Jinbo Hu","doi":"10.1007/s40265-024-02092-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40265-024-02092-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Although a range of renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) modulators are available for blood pressure lowering, the optimal choice within this class remains unclear. We aimed to compare the efficacy and safety of RAAS modulators in the adult hypertensive population.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A systematic literature search was performed in PubMed, CENTRAL, and Embase. The primary efficacy outcome was all-cause mortality and the secondary efficacy outcome was cardiovascular mortality. Tolerability outcome was discontinuation due to adverse events. Safety outcomes included the occurrence of cough, dizziness, edema, hyperkalemia, and hypotension. Network meta-analyses were performed utilizing a random-effects model within a frequentist framework.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We finally identified 51 articles from 49 randomized controlled trials. When compared to placebo, mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (MRAs) significantly reduced the risk of all-cause mortality (odds ratio (OR) 0.83; 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.74-0.92) and cardiovascular mortality (OR 0.79; 95% CI 0.68-0.93), while none of other RAAS modulators significantly lowered the risk of all-cause or cardiovascular mortality. Individual comparisons indicated that MRAs were associated with a significantly lower risk of all-cause mortality than the other RAAS modulators (reduction: 16% compared with angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs), 14% compared with angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs), and 22% compared with direct renin inhibitors (DRIs)). No difference in discontinuation due to adverse events was found in a comparison of RAAS modulators with placebo. With regard to safety outcomes, ACEIs have a higher risk of cough (OR 4.68; 95% CI 1.61-13.60), ARBs have a higher risk of dizziness (OR 1.42; 95% CI 1.06-1.91), hypotension (OR 2.10; 95% CI 1.02-4.34), and hyperkalemia (OR 1.99; 95% CI 1.17-3.41), and MRAs had a higher risk of hyperkalemia (OR 2.68; 95% CI 1.99-3.62) when compared to placebo.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>MRAs were the only RAAS modulators with a survival benefit in adults with hypertension, although they carried a higher risk of hyperkalemia. Our data challenge current hypertension guidelines which recommend MRAs as fourth-line therapy, and suggest that MRAs should be prescribed earlier and more widely.</p><p><strong>Registration: </strong>PROSPERO identifier number CRD42023405714.</p>","PeriodicalId":11482,"journal":{"name":"Drugs","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142282126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DrugsPub Date : 2024-09-19DOI: 10.1007/s40265-024-02089-2
Susan J. Keam
{"title":"Golidocitinib: First Approval","authors":"Susan J. Keam","doi":"10.1007/s40265-024-02089-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40265-024-02089-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Golidocitinib (高瑞哲<sup>®</sup>) is an oral, potent, selective Janus kinase 1 (JAK1) inhibitor being developed by Dizal (Jiangsu) Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd for the treatment of cancer, including peripheral T cell lymphoma (PTCL). In June 2024, golidocitinib received conditional approval in China for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory (r/r) PTCL who have received at least one line of systemic treatment. This article summarizes the milestones in the development of golidocitinib leading to this first approval for the treatment of adults with PTCL.</p>","PeriodicalId":11482,"journal":{"name":"Drugs","volume":"86 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142260295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DrugsPub Date : 2024-09-11DOI: 10.1007/s40265-024-02091-8
Panagiotis I. Georgianos, Vasilios Vaios, Theocharis Koufakis, Vassilios Liakopoulos
{"title":"Slowing the Progression of Chronic Kidney Disease in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Using Four Pillars of Therapy: The Time to Act is Now","authors":"Panagiotis I. Georgianos, Vasilios Vaios, Theocharis Koufakis, Vassilios Liakopoulos","doi":"10.1007/s40265-024-02091-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40265-024-02091-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is the most common co-morbidity in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and its presence substantially amplifies the risk for premature death, adverse cardiovascular events, and faster progression of kidney injury to kidney failure. For nearly two decades, the pharmacological blockade of the renin-angiotensin-system (RAS) was the only pillar of therapy to afford cardiorenal protection in these patients. During the last 5 years, newer novel therapies have been added to our therapeutic armamentarium, offering promise for more effective management of diabetic kidney disease in the future. Large phase 3 clinical trials have demonstrated additive cardiorenal protective benefits of sodium-glucose co-transporter type 2 (SGLT-2) inhibitors, the non-steroidal mineralocorticoid-receptor-antagonist (MRA) finerenone, and glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist (GLP-1RA) semaglutide relative to placebo in patients with albuminuric CKD and T2D who are receiving standard-of-care treatment with a RAS-blocker. These therapies are likely much more effective when administered in a combined therapeutic algorithm, but the potential additive effects of combination therapy remain to be established in ongoing clinical trials. In this article, we assemble four pillars of therapy for the attenuation of residual cardiorenal risk in patients with CKD associated with T2D. We provide evidence from recent randomized trials and we discuss the concept of combined treatment for maximal cardiorenal protection in this high-risk patient population.</p>","PeriodicalId":11482,"journal":{"name":"Drugs","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142220089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DrugsPub Date : 2024-09-01Epub Date: 2024-07-13DOI: 10.1007/s40265-024-02066-9
Aleksandra Bzura, Jake B Spicer, Sean Dulloo, Timothy A Yap, Dean A Fennell
{"title":"Targeting DNA Damage Response Deficiency in Thoracic Cancers.","authors":"Aleksandra Bzura, Jake B Spicer, Sean Dulloo, Timothy A Yap, Dean A Fennell","doi":"10.1007/s40265-024-02066-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40265-024-02066-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Thoracic cancers comprise non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLCs), small cell lung cancers (SCLCs) and malignant pleural mesotheliomas (MPM). Collectively, they account for the highest rate of death from malignancy worldwide. Genomic instability is a universal feature of cancer, which fuels mutations and tumour evolution. Deficiencies in DNA damage response (DDR) genes amplify genomic instability. Homologous recombination deficiency (HRD), resulting from BRCA1/BRCA2 inactivation, is exploited for therapeutic synthetic lethality with poly-ADP ribose polymerase (PARP) inhibitors in breast and ovarian cancers, as well as in prostate and pancreatic cancers. However, DDR deficiency and its therapeutic implications are less well established in thoracic cancers. Emerging evidence suggests that a subset of thoracic cancers may harbour DDR deficiency and may, thus, be effectively targeted with DDR agents. Here, we review the current evidence surrounding DDR in thoracic cancers and discuss the challenges and promise for achieving clinical benefit with such therapeutics.</p>","PeriodicalId":11482,"journal":{"name":"Drugs","volume":" ","pages":"1025-1033"},"PeriodicalIF":13.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141603459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DrugsPub Date : 2024-09-01Epub Date: 2024-09-06DOI: 10.1007/s40265-024-02088-3
Hannah A Blair
{"title":"Correction: Elafibranor: First Approval.","authors":"Hannah A Blair","doi":"10.1007/s40265-024-02088-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40265-024-02088-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11482,"journal":{"name":"Drugs","volume":" ","pages":"1165"},"PeriodicalIF":13.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142139625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DrugsPub Date : 2024-09-01Epub Date: 2024-08-20DOI: 10.1007/s40265-024-02080-x
Susan J Keam
{"title":"Imetelstat: First Approval.","authors":"Susan J Keam","doi":"10.1007/s40265-024-02080-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40265-024-02080-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Imetelstat (RYTELO™), an oligonucleotide telomerase inhibitor, is being developed by Geron Corporation for the treatment of myeloid hematologic malignancies. In June 2024, imetelstat was approved in the USA for use in adult patients with low- to intermediate-1 risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) with transfusion-dependent anemia requiring 4 or more red blood cell units over 8 weeks who have not responded to or have lost response to or are ineligible for erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESA). This article summarizes the milestones in the development of imetelstat leading to this first approval for the treatment of adult patients with low- to intermediate-1 risk MDS with transfusion-dependent anemia.</p>","PeriodicalId":11482,"journal":{"name":"Drugs","volume":" ","pages":"1149-1155"},"PeriodicalIF":13.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142003897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DrugsPub Date : 2024-09-01Epub Date: 2024-08-21DOI: 10.1007/s40265-024-02083-8
Benjamin J Cowling, George N Okoli
{"title":"Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness and Progress Towards a Universal Influenza Vaccine.","authors":"Benjamin J Cowling, George N Okoli","doi":"10.1007/s40265-024-02083-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40265-024-02083-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>At various times in recent decades, surges have occurred in optimism about the potential for universal influenza vaccines that provide strong, broad, and long-lasting protection and could substantially reduce the disease burden associated with seasonal influenza epidemics as well as the threat posed by pandemic influenza. Each year more than 500 million doses of seasonal influenza vaccine are administered around the world, with most doses being egg-grown inactivated subunit or split-virion vaccines. These vaccines tend to have moderate effectiveness against medically attended influenza for influenza A(H1N1) and influenza B, and somewhat lower for influenza A(H3N2) where differences between vaccine strains and circulating strains can occur more frequently due to antigenic drift and egg adaptations in the vaccine strains. Several enhanced influenza vaccine platforms have been developed including cell-grown antigen, the inclusion of adjuvants, or higher antigen doses, to improve immunogenicity and protection. During the COVID-19 pandemic there was unprecedented speed in development and roll-out of relatively new vaccine platforms, including mRNA vaccines and viral vector vaccines. These new platforms present opportunities to improve protection for influenza beyond existing products. Other approaches continue to be explored. Incremental improvements in influenza vaccine performance should be achievable in the short to medium term.</p>","PeriodicalId":11482,"journal":{"name":"Drugs","volume":" ","pages":"1013-1023"},"PeriodicalIF":13.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11438668/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142016676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}