FDA has granted an accelerated approval to Venclexta (venetoclax), in combination with a hypomethylating agent (azacitidine or decitabine), or low-dose cytarabine, for the treatment of people with newly-diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia, who are age 75 years or older, or for those ineligible for intensive induction chemotherapy due to coexisting medical conditions.
Two lawsuits filed within days of each other in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois claimed that Tempus AI Inc., an AI-driven precision and genomic testing company, had violated the Illinois Genetic Information Privacy Act when it acquired Ambry Genetics and started to integrate its genetics data into its predictive models.
