Zydus Lifesciences gets USFDA nod

New Delhi: Zydus Lifesciences Ltd on Friday said it has received final approval from the US health regulator for its generic version of Ivabradine tablets indicated for the treatment of heart failure. The approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) is for Ivabradine tablets of strengths 5 mg and 7.5 mg, the company said in a regulatory filing. The drug will be manufactured at the group’s formulation manufacturing facility at Ahmedabad SEZ, India, it added. Ivabradine is indicated to reduce the risk of hospitalisation for worsening heart failure in adult patients with stable, symptomatic chronic heart failure with certain conditions, the company said. It is also used in children aged six months and older for the treatment of stable symptomatic heart failure due to cardiomyopathy, it added. Zydus said it was one of the first abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) applicants to submit a substantially complete ANDA with a paragraph IV certification for Ivabradine Tablets, 5 mg and 7.5 mg.