AstraZeneca's biologic asthma drug Fasenra can now be self-administered by patients after the FDA approved the method of administration in a new prefilled autoinjector.
The U.K.-based drugmaker's Fasenra is now the third respiratory biologic with the option to be self-administered, improving access for patients with severe eosinophilic asthma. It comes as a prefilled, single-use autoinjector.
The treatment, which was originally approved in the U.S. in 2017, is to be used every eight weeks by patients 12 years and older. Self-administration was already approved in the European Union.
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