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IPF marketers push for more patients

 
• By Lisa LaMotta

With both Esbriet and Ofev gaining approval on the same day, Roche's Genentech and Boehringer Ingelheim have been working to differentiate their respective drugs in the idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis market. Recent spates of data released at the American Thoracic Society annual meeting in Denver could help expand the patient populations for the two therapies.

Both Roche's Esbriet (pirfenidone) and Boehringer's Ofev (nintedanib) were approved by FDA on 15 October and the companies have...

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