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The Top 5 Biosimilar Articles for the Week of September 4
Here are the top 5 biosimilar articles for the week of September 4, 2023.
Hi, I’m Justina Petrullo for The Center for Biosimilars®, your resource for clinical, regulatory, business, and policy news in the rapidly changing world of biosimilars.
Here are the top 5 biosimilar articles for the week of September 4th, 2023.
Number 5: Alvotech’s revenues for the first 6 months of 2023 reached $22.7 million, a nearly 600% year-over-year increase.
Number 4: After a busy July, August brought hope for the biosimilar industry’s future, with the approval of the first neurology biosimilar, growth projections from company quarterly expense reports, and several analyses about the health of the market.
Number 3: Sarfaraz K. Niazi, PhD, reacted to CMS' list of the first 10 drugs chosen for price negotiation under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), including 3 biologics with no biosimilar competition.
Number 2: Single switching between approved biologics and biosimilars of tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFis) were found to be safe and effective for rheumatoid arthritis.
Number 1: Stelara (ustekinumab) and Enbrel (etanercept), 2 originator medications that will face biosimilar competition within the next decade, were among the 10 preliminary drugs chosen for Medicare price negotiation under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).
To read all of these articles and more, visit centerforbiosimilars.com.
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