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As Lilly surges, headwinds against its weight loss drugs are growing
After missing analysts’ earnings expectations for Mounjaro sales in the first quarter due to overwhelming demand, Lilly is also dealing with a legal loss and incoming pricing questions from lawmakers.
By Amy Baxter • May 15, 2024 -
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Big Pharma’s most improved drugs: a new generation of blockbusters
The old guard of pharma bestsellers is seeing more competition, but newer drugs demonstrating sales and revenue growth can build up the coffers in years to come.
By Michael Gibney • May 14, 2024 -
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5 trends impacting drug spend in the U.S.
Key factors changing how much Americans spend on prescriptions.
By Kelly Bilodeau • May 13, 2024 -
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Biosimilars are gaining ground. The IRA could push them even further next year.
As commercial momentum builds, coverage incentives for the Medicare market are expected to favor biosimilars in 2025.
By Amy Baxter • May 13, 2024 -
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Lilly’s donanemab will face an Alzheimer’s adcomm in June, setting the stage for a Leqembi showdown
The FDA announced a June advisory committee date, potentially introducing a new Alzheimer’s treatment to compete with Eisai and Biogen’s Leqembi.
By Michael Gibney • May 9, 2024 -
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$4M+ gene therapies? How payers can adapt to a new reality of pricey ‘cures’
Pricey gene therapies promise great benefit to patients but pose a threat to the payer landscape — ICER and a Tufts think tank are offering potential solutions.
By Michael Gibney • May 2, 2024 -
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3 patent expirations in 2024 and how companies are pivoting
As the cliffs approach, pharma companies are tackling the sales hit with diverging strategies.
By Amy Baxter • April 17, 2024 -
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Where the GLP-1 weight loss market goes will depend on data
As GLP-1s expand into new disease categories, their impact could be enough to overtake leading cardiovascular drugs.
By Amy Baxter • April 15, 2024 -
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Cutting pills. Rationing insulin. How Americans struggle to pay for drugs.
More than 20% of Americans are forgoing prescription medications due to costs, according to a recent survey.
By Amy Baxter • April 9, 2024 -
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Biosimilar uptake appears to finally be on the upswing, and Biocon Biologics is betting on the sector’s future
Biosimilars promise market competition for branded biologics, which in theory could drive down prices. But so far, winning market share has been a struggle.
By Michael Gibney • April 9, 2024 -
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Alnylam turns to genealogy to find rare disease patients through family trees
A vastly underdiagnosed rare disease presents a challenge to Alnylam’s commercial team, but a family health road trip has patients talking about their hereditary risk.
By Michael Gibney • March 26, 2024 -
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Who’s getting left behind in the weight loss bonanza?
As the new weight loss drugs take the world by storm, companies in other areas are battening the hatches for when slimmer patients need fewer medical interventions.
By Kelly Bilodeau • March 25, 2024 -
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Orchard sets out to sell world’s priciest gene therapy
Orchard is counting on the long-term data it’s accrued to convince insurers to cover Lenmeldy’s $4.25 million list price, the highest of any genetic medicine to come to market.
By Kristin Jensen • March 20, 2024 -
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With historic MASH approval, Madrigal preps for launch and a public offering
After snagging the first approval for MASH, Madrigal Pharmaceuticals’ drug is primed to become a blockbuster.
By Amy Baxter • March 20, 2024 -
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Ex-Novartis exec sets out to create ‘Apple of AI’
Aily Labs’ tech makes predictive business decisions for life science companies and comes from a need its founder witnessed in Big Pharma.
By Kelly Bilodeau • March 18, 2024 -
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Amylyx ALS drug fails crucial study, putting company’s future in doubt
The results have led Amylyx to pause promotion of Relyvrio and potentially pull it from the market in the coming weeks, a major blow to the company and ALS patients.
By Jacob Bell • Updated March 8, 2024 -
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How a 15-year-old Genzyme drug shortage became a legal smorgasbord of pharma’s thorniest issues
Rare disease treatments, drug shortages, a market monopoly and march-in rights all play a role in the story of newly revived litigation against Sanofi’s Genzyme.
By Alexandra Pecci • Feb. 26, 2024 -
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Ozempic for liver disease? Weight loss drugs could have even more to offer
GLP-1 drugs indications could expand as research shows potential benefits in treating MASH, where pharma has failed in the past.
By Kelly Bilodeau • Feb. 26, 2024 -
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BioMarin preaches patience amid slow sales for hemophilia gene therapy
The company earned only $3.5 million last year from its Roctavian treatment, far below the $50 million to $150 million range it had forecast eight months ago.
By Ben Fidler • Feb. 23, 2024 -
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The roadblocks faced by Biogen are many, but execs point to an R&D-focused turnaround
A disappointing few years for Biogen have led leadership to use new drug launches as fuel for an about-face.
By Michael Gibney • Feb. 15, 2024 -
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These 4 drugs had tons of promise — and they flopped. What happened?
No amount of excitement can prevent failures stemming from safety, efficacy, cost and other speed bumps along the way.
By Alexandra Pecci • Feb. 13, 2024 -
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3 questions hanging over the Novo-Catalent deal
As backlash builds for the recently announced matchup, critical questions remain over its impact.
By Kelly Bilodeau • Feb. 13, 2024 -
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Could Novo, Lilly become first trillion-dollar healthcare companies?
Explosive demand for weight loss drugs has propelled both companies to new heights. Here’s a look at the staggering growth, by the numbers.
By Meagan Parrish • Feb. 2, 2024 -
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10 of our most read articles in 2023
A presidential candidate, a changing biotech market and an enduring murder mystery — here are PharmaVoice’s most-read articles this year.
By Meagan Parrish • Dec. 22, 2023 -
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What are pharma’s next blockbusters?
In a shifting market focused on targeted therapeutics, drugs that generate big profits are still a priority.
By Kelly Bilodeau • Dec. 20, 2023
