Merck (MRK) Announces European Commission Approves KEYTRUDA Plus Chemotherapy as Treatment for Certain Patients With Locally Recurrent Unresectable or Metastatic TNBC

Go back to Merck (MRK) Announces European Commission Approves KEYTRUDA Plus Chemotherapy as Treatment for Certain Patients With Locally Recurrent Unresectable or Metastatic TNBC

Merck (MRK) Reports Positive Top-Line Results from Pivotal Phase 3 Trials Evaluating Combination of Doravirine/Islatravir for the Treatment of People with HIV-1 Infection

October 25, 2021 6:46 AM EDT

Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced positive top-line results from two pivotal Phase 3 trials of the investigational, once-daily oral fixed dose combination pill of doravirine/islatravir (DOR/ISL) in adults with HIV-1 infection who are virologically suppressed on different antiretroviral therapy regimens (ART; ILLUMINATE SWITCH A) or bictegravir/emtricitabine/tenofovir (BIC/FTC/TAF; ILLUMINATE SWITCH B). At 48 weeks, both trials met their primary efficacy endpoint of percentage of participants with HIV-1 RNA levels 50 copies/mL, demonstrating that antiviral efficacy was comparable between DOR/ISL and ART... More

Merck (MRK) And Ridgeback Announce Initiation of a Rolling Review by EU Agency for Molnupiravir,

October 25, 2021 6:02 AM EDT

Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics today announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has initiated a rolling review for molnupiravir, an investigational oral antiviral medicine, for the treatment of COVID-19 in adults. Merck plans to work with the EMAs Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) to complete the rolling review process to facilitate initiating the formal review of the Marketing Authorization Application. As previously... More