Pfizer Inc. said on May 10 the company will pay $11.6 billion to buy Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Co., making a big bet on its ability to boost sales of the top-selling pill in a new class of migraine drugs.
Axsome Therapeutics said on April 25 the company expects the U.S. health regulator to decline approval for the drug developer’s treatment of acute migraine over unresolved issues of its quality control processes, sending shares of Axsome down 20 percent.
Biohaven Presentation at AAN Showed Decreased Opioid Use in Migraine Patients Following Nurtec® ODT Therapy: A Real-World Administrative Claims Analysis
Acute Migraine, Episodic Migraine, Hydrocodone, Migraine, Migraine Headaches, Opioid Dependence, Opioid Prescriptions, Opioid Safety, Prescriptions, R&D, Real world evidence, Research & Development, TherapeuticsLongitudinal medical and prescription claims were used to assess opioid prescriptions and MME’s dispensed amongst migraine patients nine months prior to and nine months following Nurtec® ODT initiation. Among […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration accepted for review Impel NeuroPharma’s 5O5(b)(2) New Drug Application (NDA) for INP104 for the acute treatment of migraine headaches with or without aura in adults.
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Axsome Therapeutics reported positive data from the long-term, open-label Phase III MOVEMENT trial of AXS-07 for the treatment of acute migraine.
Eli Lilly and Company announced positive results from CENTURION, the company’s Phase III study looking into Reyvow (lasmiditan) for migraine attacks.
Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd. received approval for Elyxyb (celecoxib oral solution 25 mg/mL) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the acute treatment of migraine with or without aura in adults.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has a busy week of possible drug approvals on the regulatory agency’s calendar, including Celgene’s ozanimod for relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis.
Eli Lilly priced the company’s acute migraine treatment Reyvow at $640 for a pack of eight pills.