Drug With a 30-Year Monopoly Is Target of State-Level Push to Curb Prices

In a first, Colorado will cap the price of Enbrel, an arthritis drug. Using patent tactics, the drugmaker Amgen has ...
EurekAlert!

ENBREL is first therapy approved for psoriatic arthritis

SEATTLE, WA – Immunex Corporation (Nasdaq: IMNX) and Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories, a division of American Home Products (NYSE: AHP) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ...

Colorado sets first-in-the-nation price ceiling on a prescription drug

Last year, the board voted to deem Enbrel “unaffordable,” setting up a months-long process of determining whether it should set a price ceiling.
STAT

Amgen’s rheumatoid arthritis drug Enbrel targeted for first-in-the-nation price limit in Colorado

WASHINGTON — Colorado is pioneering a new way for states to crack down on prescription drug costs. In a first-in-the-nation move, a state board voted to create a payment limit for a widely prescribed ...
FierceBiotech

Data Presented at Two Global Medical Congresses Reinforce Benefit of Enbrel® (etanercept) for Patients with Chronic Inflammatory

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. and NEW YORK, May 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN) and Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) today announced new results from multiple studies of ENBREL, further expanding the ...
The Greeley Tribune

Colorado moves to cap price of arthritis drug Enbrel in first-in-the-nation action by state affordability board

A Colorado board voted to move forward with setting a price ceiling on the arthritis drug Enbrel on Friday, a first-in-the-nation step that raises questions about whether a single state can reduce ...
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Enbrel only TNF receptor with five years sustained data in treatment of rheumatoid arthritis

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., and RADNOR, Penn., – New data from multiple studies evaluating the use of ENBREL® (etanercept), the only fully human TNF receptor, in patients with long-standing disease, as ...
Monthly Prescribing Reference

Enbrel Approved for Active Juvenile Psoriatic Arthritis

The safety of etanercept in this patient population was established through multiple pediatric trials, including a clinical study in 69 children aged 2 to 17 years with moderately to severely active ...
Nasdaq

Sorrento Reports Positive Initial Result in Dosing of First Enbrel-Non-Responding Rheumatoid Arthritis Patient With the Sofusa® Lymphatic Drug Delivery Device

Sofusa is a drug delivery platform technology which delivers biologic therapies through the skin directly into the lymphatic system with potential to improve efficacy and safety and reduce the ...
The Greeley Tribune

Enbrel drugmaker sues over Colorado’s potential price cap, says prescription drug board is unconstitutional

A drugmaker whose product could be the first subjected to a price cap in Colorado is suing to throw out the state board that deemed its medication unaffordable. In February, the Colorado Prescription ...
Odessa American

ESTRICH: Enbrel makes the list

Susan Estrich is the Robert Kingsley Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of Southern California Law Center as well as being a syndicated columnist. The U.S. government this week ...