AeroRx, HCmed Team Up on New Combo of Bronchodilators for COPD

AeroRx Therapeutics is teaming up with HCmed Innovations to develop a new therapeutic combination of different classes of bronchodilators — medications that help open up the airways, making breathing easier — for the treatment of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The new combo would be delivered using…

Promising Compound Derived From Tick Saliva May Help Stop Flare-ups

Animal and human studies highlight the potential of nomacopan, an investigational inhaled medicine to alleviate severe exacerbations caused by inflammatory lung diseases, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Akari Therapeutics, the company developing the therapy, is collaborating with Inhalation Sciences to refine the dosing and pharmacological…

FDA Accepts New Drug Application for Revefenacin in Treatment of COPD

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) accepted for review a New Drug Application (NDA) submitted by Theravance Biopharma and Mylan for their collaborative compound revefenacin (TD-4208), a bronchodilator for the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in adults. The two pharmaceutical companies are aiming to develop and…