Here are the eight latest drugs or medical devices approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
- Amjevita is a biosimilar copy of Abbvie's best-selling arthritis drug Humira.
- Ahead 300 is a handheld medical device that helps clinicians diagnose a traumatic brain injury.
- Dublin-based Medtronic developed the MiniMed 670G, an artificial pancreas for patients with type 1 diabetes.
- Llaris, an anti-inflammatory drug developed by Basel, Switzerland-based Novartis, can now be used to treat three more rare auto-inflammatory diseases.
- New Brunswick, N.J.-based Johnson & Johnson's anti-inflammatory drug Stelara can now be used to treat Crohn's disease.
- The FreeStyle Libre Pro system is a continuous glucose monitoring system developed by Abbott Park, Ill.-based Abbott.
- Boston-based Vertex Pharmaceuticals' cystic fibrosis drug Orkambi can now be used to treat children ages 6 to 11.
- The BD Vacutainer Barricor plasma blood collection tube separates plasma from whole blood samples.
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