Marisa Wexler, MS,  senior science writer—

Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has approved Berinert S.C. Injection 2000 — a C1-inhibitor replacement therapy designed to be self-administered at home via injection under the skin twice per week — for preventing swelling attacks in people with hereditary angioedema (HAE). The therapy has been approved in…

The European Patent Office has granted patent protection to Verseon covering the company’s experimental plasma kallikrein inhibitors (PKIs). Two of these investigational medications, called VE-4666 and VE-4062, are currently in preclinical development as potential treatments of hereditary angioedema (HAE). “We’re very pleased with the European Patent Office’s…

NTLA-2002, an experimental gene-editing therapy designed to prevent swelling attacks in people with hereditary angioedema (HAE), has been granted orphan drug status by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This designation is given to investigational treatments that have the potential to improve care for rare diseases, defined as…

Protease-activated receptor 1 (PAR1), a protein involved in the regulation of blood vessel permeability or leakage, may contribute to hereditary angioedema (HAE) attacks. That is the preliminary conclusion of a study reporting evidence suggesting that PAR1 was highly activated in the throat tissue of a woman with HAE type…

Most young children with hereditary angioedema (HAE) in the open-label Phase 3 SPRING study were free of swelling attacks following a year of treatment with Takhzyro (lanadelumab). That’s according to new data recently shared at the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) Hybrid Congress 2022 in…

Many people with hereditary angioedema (HAE) have non-swelling symptoms, such as rash or fatigue, even when they aren’t having an acute swelling attack, a new study highlights. “HAE symptoms are not limited to only those experienced during HAE swelling attacks. Many different symptoms (including abdominal symptoms, pain, headache, fatigue, depression, and…

An approved therapy for multiple sclerosis (MS), called Gilenya (fingolimod), was effective at treating a man who had a rare combination of MS and hereditary angioedema (HAE), researchers in Greece have found. “We report [a] case study of a patient with concurrence of HAE and MS, discussing…

A common over-the-counter painkiller induced two allergic reactions — one of them leading to angioedema, and another to skin lesions — in a case study of a 41-year-old man. The report, “Angioedema and fixed drug eruption simultaneously induced by naproxen sodium: A rare clinical entity,” was…

The European Commission is expected to propose a new governing framework for health data next month, called the European Health Data Space (EHDS), with the aim of connecting national health systems to facilitate secure and efficient transfer of data across systems in different European nations. The move is expected to…

A man who had been treated with the blood pressure medication losartan for 20 years experienced sudden angioedema after upping the medication’s dose, according to a recent case report. “This is the first documented case of angioedema presenting in a dose-dependent manner with losartan use. We hope that our…