{"id":15341,"date":"2026-08-31T18:38:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T18:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=15341"},"modified":"2026-08-31T18:38:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T18:38:21","slug":"first-in-class-takeda-protagonist-drug-lands-fda-approval-in-rare-blood-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=15341","title":{"rendered":"First-in-Class Takeda, Protagonist Drug Lands FDA Approval in Rare Blood Disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/08\/takeda-protagonist-rusfertide-mimrylo-polycythemia-vera-blood-cancer-mpn-pv-tak-pgtx\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Takeda Pharmaceutical\u2019s Mimrylo is now approved for treating polycythemia vera, a rare blood cancer with limited therapeutic options. Originally developed by Protagonist Therapeutics, the engineered peptide gives Takeda a drug with blockbuster sales potential as the pharma company\u2019s top overall product faces patent expirations.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/08\/takeda-protagonist-rusfertide-mimrylo-polycythemia-vera-blood-cancer-mpn-pv-tak-pgtx\/\">First-in-Class Takeda, Protagonist Drug Lands FDA Approval in Rare Blood Disorder<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/\">MedCity News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Takeda Pharmaceutical\u2019s Mimrylo is now approved for treating polycythemia vera, a rare blood cancer with limited therapeutic options. Originally developed by Protagonist Therapeutics, the engineered peptide gives Takeda a drug with blockbuster sales potential as the pharma company\u2019s top overall product faces patent expirations. The post First-in-Class Takeda, Protagonist Drug Lands FDA Approval in Rare&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}