Amgen said on Friday it had completed the $27.8 billion acquisition of Horizon Therapeutics after it received the go-ahead from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last month on certain conditions.
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Colchicine, a drug used to treat gout, saw a 16-fold price increase since the FDA changed its policy toward single-ingredient oral colchicine products, which had previously been available generically.
Horizon Therapeutics achieved third place in the 2022 OCI top companies ranking namely for its “Gout Revisited” campaign, which seeks to remove the stigma of gout, a disease that has been largely coined as an affliction of the “overindulgent, rich white man.” Keli Walbert, executive vice president, U.S. Operations, at Horizon Therapeutics shared insights with MedAdNews about the company’s strategy in debunking gout myths and steering the message in the right direction.
