FDA Approves Umeclidinium for COPD Treatment

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved GlaxoSmithKline’s Incruse Ellipta (umeclidinium) as a treatment for patients with chronic obsessive pulmonary disease, according to a Medscape report.

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Incruse Ellipta is intended as a once-daily maintenance treatment to be administered via GSK’s Ellipta inhaler.

GSK plans to begin distributing the drug in the fourth quarter of this year.

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