Amgen Inc on Monday set the U.S. list price for its new Evenity osteoporosis dru...
- Amgen Inc on Monday set the U.S. list price for its new Evenity osteoporosis drug at $1,825 a month, or $21,900 for a full 12-month course of injections.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week approved bone-building Evenity for postmenopausal women who are at high risk of fracture, but required the label to have a boxed warning, the FDA’s strictest, flagging increased risk of heart attack, stroke and cardiovascular-related death. Analysts, on average, project Amgen’s Evenity revenue at $274 million a year by 2024, according to IBES data from Refinitiv.
Evenity, part of a new class of drugs known as sclerostin inhibitors, was studied in large clinical trials for one year, and the FDA said its use should be limited to one year.
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