Allergan oral migraine drug succeeds in study

Written by Ruby Khatun Khatun Published On 2018-06-12T09:30:17+05:30 | Updated On 12 Jun 2018 9:30 AM IST

Allergan Plc said its oral migraine drug met the main goal across all doses in a study, with a statistically significant reduction in monthly headache days in patients with episodic migraine.

The treatment, atogepant, belongs to a class of migraine drugs also being developed by Eli Lilly and Alder Biopharmaceuticals that target a protein associated with pain signaling called calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP).

Last month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Amgen Inc’s CGRP treatment Aimovig, which is self-injected monthly and will have a list price of $6,900 a year, or $575 a month.

Questions have been raised about Amgen’s strategy for Aimovig after the nation’s largest manager of prescription benefits, Express Scripts, told Reuters it is pressing Amgen and rival makers of new migraine-preventing drugs to reconsider the usual strategy of high list prices and hefty rebates.

Allergan, which aims to bring the first oral CGRP to the market, has two such drugs in its pipeline.

Last month, the company reported positive results from a second late-stage trial for the 50-milligram dose of its other migraine drug ubrogepant.

(Reporting by Ankur Banerjee in Bengaluru; Editing by Shounak Dasgupta)

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Source : REUTERS

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