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FDA Approves Pfizer’s Ngenla for Pediatric Growth Hormone Deficiency

Longer-acting treatment offers option to reduce the frequency of injections for children with GHD from daily to once-weekly.

The U.S. FDA has approved Pfizer and OPKO Health Inc.’s Ngenla, a once-weekly, human growth hormone analog for the treatment of pediatric patients aged three years and older who have growth failure due to inadequate secretion of endogenous growth hormone. Ngenla is expected to become available in August 2023. Growth hormone deficiency (GHD) is a rare disease characterized by the inadequate secretion of the growth hormone somatropin from the pituitary gland, affecting one in approximately 4,00...

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