FDA approves Gilead Science’s hep B drug

The Food and Drug Administration recently approved Vemlidy, a once-daily treatment for patients with compensated liver disease caused by chronic hepatitis B virus.

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According to Foster City, Calif.-based Gilead, Vemlidy is the first drug approved to treat this disease in almost a decade.

Vemlidy demonstrates similar antiviral efficacy at a dose one-tenth the size of Gilead’s other hepatitis B drug Viread, which gained FDA approval in 2001.

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