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The risk of developing another autoimmune disease, especially rheumatoid arthritis, increased in people with myasthenia gravis (MG) after surgery to remove a thymoma, or a tumor of the thymus gland, according to a recent Chinese study. Women and younger patients were at particularly higher risk. The study, “…

Over 40% of adults with generalized myasthenia gravis (gMG) in the U.S. who began off-label treatment with intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) became frequent users, with six or more courses in the first year, according to real-world data covering 1,225 patients. Use of standard treatments, namely corticosteroids and nonsteroidal immunosuppressives,…

The presence of anti-titin antibodies, a type of blood protein, in patients with thymoma-associated myasthenia gravis (MG) is related to more frequent hospitalizations, a study in South Korea has found. Thymoma is a type of tumor occurring in the thymus gland, a small organ in the chest that…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted priority review to Argenx’s under-the-skin (subcutaneous) formulation of efgartigimod — the active ingredient in Vyvgart, the company’s approved treatment for generalized myasthenia gravis (gMG). If the subcutaneous formulation wins regulatory approval following that review, it would broaden the…

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is supporting a pilot project that aims to develop a simple and fast diagnostic lab test for myasthenia gravis (MG). With the one-year, $100,000 NIH award, researchers at the University of California, Davis, will work to develop an assay able to identify disease-causing antibodies…

CAN106, an investigational complement-inhibiting therapy being developed by CANbridge Pharmaceuticals, has been granted orphan drug designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a potential treatment for myasthenia gravis (MG). The FDA gives orphan drug status to therapies that have the potential to treat rare disorders,…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) have agreed to review applications seeking the approval of zilucoplan to treat generalized myasthenia gravis (gMG). UCB, the therapy’s developer, announced the FDA accepted its new drug application (NDA), requesting zilucoplan be approved to treat…

The onset of myasthenia gravis (MG) occurs at a significantly younger age in people who smoke, a study has found. Women who smoked at MG onset, or within 10 years before its onset, were significantly younger at disease onset than men. Yet, no sex differences were seen among those…

Intravenous immunoglobulin therapy was not effective at reducing the daily dose of corticosteroids for treating myasthenia gravis (MG), a multicenter Phase 2 trial shows. “These results suggest that immunomodulation alone was insufficient to facilitate dose reduction,” the researchers wrote. The trial results were reported in the study, “…

Nearly six months of treatment with telitacicept (RC18), an anti-inflammatory developed by RemeGen, safely lessened disease severity in adults with myasthenia gravis (MG) positive for acetylcholine receptor (AChR) antibodies. That’s according to new data from an ongoing Phase 2 trial in China. “The latest Phase II clinical study…