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Um, about that diabetes drug that helped patients lose weight

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Wegovy’s most common side effects were gastrointestinal problems, including nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting, which 80% of patients reported, according to USA Today. Novo’s PR department did a great job and most articles about the drug did talk about the side effects but how many people really read that deep?

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Thursday pharma headlines

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million, his first big raise since 2015, thanks to incentive pay that jumped by about $1.2 prescriptions of finasteride, as the drug is known, for hair loss increased to over 2.4 million in 2020, more than double the number in 2015, according to health data company IQVIA. million while the company’s pipe line falters.

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Value-Based healthcare won’t work

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There are many reasons why people don’t take their medications, including cost and medication side effects but that’s only part of the picture. This results in 20% to 30% of prescriptions for chronic medical conditions never being filled, and at least half of these medications not being taken as prescribed.

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FDA rejects Spectrum’s lung cancer drug poziotinib

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The phase 2 ZENITH20 study showed an objective response rate (ORR) of 28% with a median duration of response of around five months, and 12% of patients had to discontinue therapy due to side effects. Spectrum licensed worldwide rights to poziotinib – excluding Korea and China – from Hanmi in back in 2015.

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Beating the Big C

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Between 2003 and 2005 global sales for cancer-treating drugs grew by 40% According to IMS Health, who tracks prescription drug sales, the global market for cancer drugs is still growing rapidly with around $48bn spent on oncology products in 2008; a figure which accounts for 17% of worldwide pharmaceutical sales. .”

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Female sexual interest drug reaches tipping point with Phase III plans

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In 2015, the FDA approved Sprout Pharmaceuticals’s Addyi, also known under the generic name flibanserin, for use by pre-menopausal women with hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD). Moreover, despite the buzz generated when Addyi was launched in 2015, only one other drug has since been marketed.