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WALTHAM, Mass., Feb. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that the ulcerative colitis drug market will nearly double from $1.2 billion in 2008 to $2.1 billion in 2018 in the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and Japan. Through 2018, the primary drivers of market growth will be the uptake of Abbott/Eisai's Humira and Centocor Ortho Biotech/Merck/Mitsubishi...

WALTHAM, Mass., Feb. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that, owing to increasing competition from other biologic agents, Amgen/Pfizer/Takeda's Enbrel (etanercept)--the leading therapy in the psoriasis drug market in 2008--will account for less than one-fifth of sales in the overall market in 2018. In 2008, Enbrel garnered half of the psoriasis drug market share in the United States,...

Findings from a cost model suggest that expenses for systemic psoriasis therapy appear to be increasing at a faster rate than inflation, and newer biologically derived treatments are more expensive than traditional systemic therapies, according to a report in the January issue of Archives of Dermatology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.Psoriasis is a chronic autoimmune disease that affects an estimated 4.5 million to 7.5 million Americans, costing the health care industry approximately more...

Clinical trials to test the effectiveness of two prescription drugs for the debilitating skin condition psoriasis have revealed significant differences that should help inform physicians treating patients with the condition.Researchers at The University of Manchester compared the drugs etanercept and ustekinumab "“ relatively new biological therapies that have proved effective in the management of moderate to severe psoriasis.Little research has been done to test the benefit-risk profiles...

HORSHAM, Pa., Jan. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Findings from an international, Phase 3 clinical study comparing the efficacy and safety of STELARA(TM) (ustekinumab) with etanercept (Enbrel®) in the treatment of moderate to severe plaque psoriasis appear today in The New England Journal of Medicine. The results showed a significantly higher clinical response with both doses of STELARA than with etanercept over a 12-week period. The first-of-its-kind head-to-head study comparing two biologic...

EXTON, Pa., Jan. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- BioTrends is pleased to announce the fielding of a new syndicated report, LaunchTrends®: ACTEMRA. Roche, Inc. announced that they received FDA approval for Actemra (generic name: tocilizumab) on January 8th. This represents the first IL-6 receptor inhibitor agent approved for Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA); Actemra is approved for adult patients with moderately-to-severely active RA who have had an inadequate response to one or more TNF antagonist...

LONDON and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and ChemoCentryx, Inc. today announced that GSK has exercised its option to obtain an exclusive license for further development and worldwide commercialization of Traficet-EN(TM) (CCX282-B), a specific CCR9 antagonist with the potential to offer a new approach for the treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases, including Crohn's disease. The option also encompasses two further identified backup compounds and...

WALTHAM, Mass., Jan. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that a biological therapy with a mechanism of action other than tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) inhibition for the treatment of moderate to severe ulcerative colitis, would earn a 25 percent patient share according to surveyed U.S. gastroenterologists. Similarly, in Europe, such an agent would also earn 25 percent patient...

EXTON, Pa., Dec. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- BioTrends Research Group, Inc. announces the release of the final wave of LaunchTrends®: Simponi and Cimzia report. The survey was completed by U.S. Rheumatologists (n=77) in late November 2009. BioTrends also conducted qualitative interviews with a subset (n=20) of the survey respondents to get an in-depth view of the sales and marketing messages being employed to differentiate the products. Over the course of the six month study over 300...

WALTHAM, Mass., Dec. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that, according to responses from surveyed dermatologists, Centocor Ortho Biotech/Janssen-Cilag's Stelara and Abbott's briakinumab (both interleukin inhibitors) will capture 22 percent of the biologics share in 2012 in the drug market for moderate to severe psoriasis. Among these two agents, Stelara will experience greater...