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16/09/2022at 10:24

Sanofi-Astrazeneca preventive RSV drug recommended for approval by CHMP

The EU’s authority in charge of reviewing drug applications before final approval has given a positive opinion on the world’s first, and only, preventive treatment for RSV in infants.
Photo: Benoit Tessier/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix
by christopher due karlsson, translated by daniel pedersen

On Friday, the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) special committee, the CHMP, sent a preventive treatment for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) lower respiratory tract disease in newborns and infants one step closer to European market authorization.

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