Rigel Announces Availability of TAVALISSE™ (fostamatinib disodium hexahydrate) in the U.S.

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., May 29, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: RIGL), today announced that TAVALISSE™ (fostamatinib disodium hexahydrate) is available by prescription for the treatment of thrombocytopenia in adult patients with chronic immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) who have had an insufficient response to a previous treatment. TAVALISSE, an oral spleen tyrosine kinase (SYK) inhibitor that targets the underlying autoimmune cause of the disease by impeding platelet destruction, was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in April 2018.

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