The FDA late Friday awarded Boehringer Ingelheim the first interchangeability designation for its Humira biosimilar Cyltezo, meaning that when it launches in July 2023, pharmacists will be able to automatically substitute the Boehringer’s version for AbbVie’s mega-blockbuster without a doctor’s input.

The designation will likely give Boehringer, which first won approval for Cyltezo in 2017, the leg up on a crowded field of Humira competitors.

Oyster Point Pharma now has its first FDA-approved product — Tyrvaya. And the biotech has taken a unique route to get there by using an old drug with a storied past.

The New Jersey biotech announced this morning that the FDA has approved their nasal spray product for dry eye disease on Friday — the first nasal spray to be approved for the disease. The product’s active ingredient is 0.03 mg of varenicline, also known as smoking cessation aid Chantix.

Esperion’s executive team spent years insisting that they had found the sweet spot in the market for their cholesterol drug. But that strategy has soured badly, and after struggling to sell its heart disease pill for more than a year, the biotech says it will cut about 40% of its staff over the next few weeks.

The layoffs will take place across the board, from sales and marketing to R&D, CEO Sheldon Koenig told Endpoints News on Monday. While the chief executive declined to elaborate on how many employees will be affected, an SEC filing stated that approximately 170 staffers are on the chopping block.

Omeros practically warned investors that a complete response letter was coming when it disclosed that the FDA found deficiencies in its BLA for narsoplimab. But the agency did not elaborate on the specifics of those deficiencies for the drug, which was being positioned as a treatment for the rare but serious blood clotting disease known as hematopoietic stem cell transplant-associated thrombotic microangiopathy (HSCT-TMA).

If at first you don’t succeed, and at second you don’t succeed, try, try again.

That’s been the unofficial mantra for Adamis Pharmaceuticals’ high dose naloxone injection, which received two CRLs in the span of a year between the Novembers of 2019 and 2020. But on Monday, word came through that the FDA approved the drug on Adamis’ third attempt, giving doctors another tool to treat individuals who overdose on opioids.