The AJMC® Biosimilars compendium is a comprehensive resource for news and expert insights into these biological products, including clinical research, patent and legal news, and regulatory updates.
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Patients with radiographic axial spondyloarthritis (ax-SpA) and a high risk of radiographic progression had similar low progression on both secukinumab and an adalimumab biosimilar.
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AJMC®tv Interviews, December 2017
December 20th 2017AJMC®TV interviews let you catch up on what’s new and important about changes in healthcare, with insights from key decision makers—from the clinician, to the health plan leader, to the regulator. When every minute in your day matters, AJMC®TV interviews keep you informed. Access the video clips at ajmc.com/interviews.
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The Switch From Filgrastim to a Cheaper Alternative: Tbo-Filgrastim
December 1st 2017With the increasing emergence of less expensive biologic alternatives, some health systems are making the switch. For a large healthcare system, the arrival of a cheaper alternative to filgrastim prompted the conversion to using tbo-filgrastim as the preferrred granulocyte-colony stimulating factor. The results were shared in a study published by the Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy.
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5 Things to Know About the Nocebo Effect and Biosimilars
November 24th 2017The “nocebo” effect, a phenomenon that occurs when a patient’s negative perception of a therapy causes a treatment to have a worse outcome than would otherwise be expected, has become a topic of increasing interest in the world of biosimilars as some patients begin to transition from familiar, high-cost biologics to new, lower-cost biosimilars.
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5 Highlights From the 2017 ACR Meeting
November 11th 2017A review of some of the presentations at the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) 2017 Annual Meeting, in San Diego, California, where the discussions ranged from clinical progress witnessed in 2017 for the treatment of inflammatory conditions to reimbursement models in the rheumatology space.
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Tesh Khullar: Community Oncologists Need to Understand Impact of Biosimilars on Their Business
November 8th 2017Biosimilars for core therapeutics in cancer are starting to come out, and community oncologists need to understand what that means for their business, as well as what proposed policy changes could mean for reimbursement, explained Tesh Khullar,
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Amanda Forys on How Biosimilars Are Being Approached on the State Level
September 3rd 2017States are addressing biosimilars in different ways and putting different regulations in place as biosimilars become more prevalent in the market, explained Amanda Forys, MSPH, director of Xcenda’s Reimbursement Policy Insights consulting team.
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Dr Alan Carter on Biosimilars in the Insulin Market
July 27th 2017Alan Carter, PharmD, principal investigator and senior advisor at MRIGlobal, and adjunct faculty at University of Missouri—Kansas City School of Pharmacy discusses the influence of biosimilars and follow-ons in the insulin market and their reliability should be validated.
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CT-P6, a Trastuzumab Biosimilar, Shares the Safety and Efficacy Profile of Its Reference
July 21st 2017CT-P6, a proposed trastuzumab biosimilar, is safe and effective as a neoadjuvant treatment in HER2—positive early breast cancer, according to research presented at the 2017 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting.
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Research Demonstrates Efficacy and Safety of Trastuzumab Biosimilar SB3
July 21st 2017Research presented at the 2017 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting showed that SB3, a proposed biosimilar to trastuzumab, has comparable efficacy, safety, immunogenicity, and pharmacokinetics to the reference product based on the breast pathological complete response.
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Switching Study Reports Equivalence Between Filgrastim, Biosimilar in Breast Cancer
July 21st 2017After switching studies, research in patients with breast cancer receiving neoadjuvant myelosuppressive chemotherapy has found clinical equivalence between filgrastim and its biosimilar, according to results presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
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This Week in Managed Care: June 16, 2017
June 16th 2017This week, the top managed care news included a report from CMS that found 2 million people dropped Obamacare coverage after failing to pay their premiums; a study found the diabetes drug canagliflozin reduced cardiovascular risk; and the Supreme Court of the United States rules in favor of biosimilars.
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Dr Edward Li Discusses the Benefit Biosimilars Can Have in Oncology
June 4th 2017The impact that generics have on bringing down the cost of branded drugs needs to happen in the biologics space so the industry can save money and improve access to medications and population outcomes, according to Edward Li, PharmD, MPH, BCOP, of the University of New England.
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