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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved nerandomilast, an oral medication developed by Boehringer Ingelheim, to treat adults with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) — when the lung disease has no known cause. The therapy will be marketed under the brand name Jascayd. According to a…

Treatment with the experimental therapy nerandomilast appears to reduce the risk of death in people with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and progressive pulmonary fibrosis (PPF), according to a new analysis of clinical trial data presented by the therapy’s developer, Boehringer Ingelheim. “The new pooled data zoom in on…

LTI-03, an experimental treatment for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) that’s currently in clinical testing, was shown to reduce inflammation and scarring in experiments done on lung tissue collected from IPF patients, according to a study. The study showed that LTI-03’s effects on inflammation and scarring were similar to those…

GRI-0621, an experimental oral therapy for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), may stabilize lung function, according to an interim analysis of an ongoing Phase 2a study. Forced vital capacity (FVC), a measure of how much air a person can forcibly exhale, didn’t worsen during the first six weeks of the…

Using a specialized lab technique, a collaborative U.S. research team identified cellular changes in the body that could be early drivers of lung scarring (fibrosis) in people with pulmonary fibrosis (PF). That’s according to the findings of a new study in which the researchers, from three universities, exposed lung…

The inhalation therapy Tyvaso (treprostinil) significantly improved a measure of lung function for people with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) in a Phase 3 clinical trial. The top-line result means that the Phase 3 TETON 2 clinical trial (NCT05255991) has met its main goal. Tyvaso’s developer, United…

September is Pulmonary Fibrosis Awareness Month, and organizations around the world are gearing up to educate others and bring attention to pulmonary fibrosis (PF) — and also interstitial lung diseases (ILDs), which are disorders marked by scarring in the lungs. “We urgently need broader awareness because with it…

Rein Therapeutics is working with clinical sites to begin recruiting patients in the U.K. for its Phase 2 trial of LTI-03, a therapy candidate for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), after receiving approval from the country’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). “This MHRA approval marks an important…

Consistently tracking the levels of Krebs von den Lungen-6 (KL-6), a protein that can indicate lung inflammation or damage, may help predict acute exacerbations in people with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and other types of fibrotic interstitial lung diseases (ILDs), a study reports. Findings indicated that KL-6 levels tended…

Treatment with GRI Bio‘s investigational oral therapy GRI-0621 appears to reduce markers of fibrosis, or scarring, in people with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), according to an interim analysis of biomarker data from an ongoing Phase 2a clinical trial. “These 6-week interim biomarker data, while early and based on…