Saturday, February 7, 2026

Power Alley: More FDA Good News, In Certain Lymphomas, For Kite/Gilead's Yescarta®...


This is more very good news -- for a public company I've long felt is and was very well run.

The ability to simply get full coverage from insurers, for very sick lymphoma patients, without weeks or months of haggling about off-label benefits, is worth its weight in gold, to Gilead and its Kite Pharma unit. Trust that. Here's the latest, from Friday -- [with earnings due next week]:

. . .Gilead’s Kite unit announced on Friday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a label update for its CAR-T therapy Yescarta, removing a limitation that prevented its use in a subset of patients with a rare form of lymphoma.

The revised prescribing information removes Yescarta’s previously limited use in patients with relapsed or refractory ((R/R)) primary central nervous system lymphoma, a rare type of lymphoma that mainly affects the brain and spinal cord. . . .


Now you know -- and my favorite exotic chocolates tasting season is upon us. . . starting Monday, I will frequent the best bespoke chocolatiers of this fine city, and bring home nightly treasures -- to try, with hot coffee or ice-cold milk. Grin!

नमस्ते

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Check out latest on Substack.

condor said...

Updated: I've made your Substack the third icon in my blogroll at left. I re-upped the 2008 era graphic too! It is yours, as always for the wide world. End updated portion....

Will do, my friend -- a lil' saddened by Lindsey Vonn's tough wipe-out. Game over.

Namaste....