The Top 5 Biosimilars Articles for the Week of May 21

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Hi, I’m Kelly Davio 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 biosimilars articles for the week of May 21.

Number 5: Both a disease activity score in a count of 28 joints and a score on a short-form mental health survey may be able to predict which patients with rheumatoid arthritis will experience a disease flare if they try to taper their anti—tumor necrosis factor therapy.

Number 4: The FDA has released a new series of educational videos on biosimilars and interchangeable products.

Number 3: At this week’s International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research’s (or ISPOR’s) 23rd Annual International Meeting, researchers reported that, while biosimilars have a longer history in Europe than they have in the United States, challenges to uptake still linger.

Number 2: In a Monday workshop at the ISPOR meeting, Mike Blum, MD, MPH, of the FDA, addressed the role of postmarketing surveillance in the US biosimilars market.

Number 1: The European Commission has granted marketing authorization to Sandoz’s infliximab biosimilar, Zessly.

Finally, last week, our e-newsletter asked whether you think that the President’s drug pricing plan goes far enough to address Americans’ concerns over the high cost of healthcare.

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