Genentech has had the lone medicine on the market for the acute treatment of stroke. | Over nearly the last three decades, ...

Genentech, a member of the Roche Group (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY), today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug ...

Notably, off-label tenecteplase had already become the preferred thrombolytic for acute ischemic stroke before the expanded ...

Genentech announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved TNKase, a thrombolytic or clot-dissolving agent, for the treatment ...

The approval is based on results of the AcT trial, where tenecteplase was comparable to alteplase for safety and efficacy.

The approval was supported by data from the registry-linked, parallel group, open-label, randomized AcT trial, which compared tenecteplase to alteplase.

Genentech is committed to helping people access ... ATEs are defined as nonfatal stroke, nonfatal myocardial infarction, or vascular death (including deaths of unknown cause).

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Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, announced that the FDA has approved the company’s TNKase (tenecteplase) thrombolytic ...