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Drug Safety

Pfizer pulls sickle cell drug

by Laura Howes
October 7, 2024 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 102, Issue 31

 

The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is pulling its small-molecule drug for mild-to- moderate symptoms of sickle cell anemia, which had been granted accelerated approval. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) raised concerns in July after deaths of participants in the follow-up clinical trials of Oxbryta. The EMA scheduled a meeting last month to discuss “emerging data” about the drug, but Pfizer decided to pull the drug in all markets before that meeting took place.

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