Drug Watch: Agents in late-stage development for the treatment of osteoporosis (March 2005) (PDF)

The fourth pair of denosumab biosimilars, Conexxence and Bomyntra, are expected to launch in the United States in mid 2025, as a result of a global settlement with Amgen, according to a company news release.

Vykat XR will be available in April to treat the intense hunger that is a hallmark of the rare genetic disease Prader-Willi syndrome. The price is based on a patient’s weight, and the average patient in the clinical trials would have had an average annual cost of $466,200 for the first year.

Blujepa is the first in a new class of oral antibiotics in 30 years. It is expected to launch in the second half of 2025 in the United States.

Neuroendocrine tumors that start in the pancreas tend to be more aggressive and have a poor prognosis.

Wegovy is also available through NovoCare Pharmacy, which directly ship all dose strengths at a cost of $499 per month for cash-paying patients.

This expanded indication for Amvuttra makes it the first and only FDA-approved treatment for transthyretin amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM) and the polyneuropathy of hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis (hATTR-PN) in adults.