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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Kresladi (marnetegragene autotemcel), the first gene therapy for the treatment of severe Leukocyte Adhesion Deficiency Type I (LAD-I). Kresladi is indicated for the treatment of pediatric patients with severe leukocyte adhesion deficiency I (LAD-I) due to biallelic variants in ITGB2 without an available human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-matched sibling donor for allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new treatment combination of teclistamab‑cqyv with daratumumab and hyaluronidase‑fihj for adult patients with relapsed or refractory Multiple Myeloma. The approval offers a new therapeutic option for patients whose disease has returned or stopped responding after earlier treatments.

AstraZeneca announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved its fixed-duration all-oral combination of Calquence® (acalabrutinib) with venetoclax for the first-line treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL) in adults. The approval marks the first time a Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor-based regimen has been authorised in the U.S. as a time-limited, oral treatment option for newly diagnosed patients.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an official warning letter to Genetrace, a company based in Blaine, Washington, for offering an HIV diagnostic self-collection kit to U.S. customers without proper authorization.

According to the FDA, the product in question is a dried blood spot (DBS) card self-collection kit that people use at home to collect blood samples and send them to a lab for HIV testing. The agency says this kit qualifies as a medical device because it is meant to help diagnose disease.