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Prasugrel Today?

Posted on September 26, 2008

I wrote back in the summer about the FDA's delayed decision on Lilly's potential anticoagulant blockbuster Effient (prasugrel). Well, those three months have zipped right by, and the agency is supposed to rule today.Prediction, for what it's worth: I think the drug will be approved, but with label restrictions for the group(s) that seemed to respond best to it in trials - who may have been. at least partly, the groups that could put up with the associated bleeding the best, too. So no elderly patients, no low-weight ones, and no one with a history of stroke or TIA. That'll cut down the market ...

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