Posted on 05/19/2018 1:00:46 AM PDT by GonzoII
Amgen will charge $6,900 a year for a new drug that can spare migraine sufferers a few headaches each month, a price that comes in well below Wall Street expectations as the company hopes to avoid the payer backlash that has hamstrung recent drug launches.
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At $6,900 a year, Aimovig would seem more likely to appease payers, but Amgen’s investors may question just how lucrative the drug will end up being. By 2019, there could be four competing migraine treatments on the market, creating a competitive environment that might force Amgen to aggressively discount its therapy to stay in insurers’ good graces.
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It will sell for $500 per year in India......
$500 in India? More like 90 pills for $20
If I only had an Indian connection.
Migraines are nothing but sheer misery.
Lifelong sufferer.
$575 per month is still ridiculously high.
“$575 per month is still ridiculously high.”
Expect price will be lowered in a couple years. I worked at Amgen for a while in the R & D Department. The overhead is monstrous and it’ll take some time to get those costs covered.
Have you checked out Pantothenic Acid (vitamin B5)? At the very first sign of a migraine coming on, pop 2 or 3 of these. For me, it stops the migraine from developing. I hope that it works for you too.
It's an injectable drug, likely biologic in nature, meaning it will not be quickly duplicated or sold cheaply in India.
Some of these might help:
https://migraine.com/living-migraine/which-supplements-work-best-for-migraine-prevention/
If it is a biologic, the name should end in “...mab...
This sounds like a small molecule.
I regularly drink apple cider vinegar, 1oz to 8oz water with sugar enough to make it smoother. Everyday, and I don’t get migraines.
A friend of mine has suffered with migraines for years. I told her about Copaiba therapeutic grade essential oil and she’s now having much fewer and far less intense headaches. Make sure that the one you get specifically says that it’s okay to take internally.
A “mab” is short for a monoclonal antibody. That’s only one kind of biologic; there are many others. The Novartis drug mentioned is a CGRP. It too, is a large-molecule drug, and not nearly as easily produced in places like India.
Sorry, Amgen, not Novartis.
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