{"id":14590,"date":"2025-07-22T04:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T04:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/14590\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T04:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T04:46:08","slug":"sarepta-to-pause-gene-therapy-elevidys-shipments-in-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/14590\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarepta to pause gene therapy Elevidys shipments in U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Fuller | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/SRPT\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sarepta Therapeutics<\/a> said on Monday that it will pause all shipments of its Elevidys gene therapy in the United States after a muscular dystrophy patient who received a different, experimental treatment died.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. regulators on Friday asked Sarepta Therapeutics to voluntarily halt shipments of its gene therapy. However, the company had first refused to do so.<\/p>\n<p>All shipments of Elevidys for Duchenne muscular dystrophy would be temporarily paused by close of business on Tuesday, Sarepta said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thomas Fuller | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Sarepta Therapeutics said on Monday that it will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1234,45,161,49,48,2974,4358],"class_list":{"0":"post-14590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-biotech-and-pharmaceuticals","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-business-news","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-pharmaceuticals","14":"tag-sarepta-therapeutics-inc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}