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Xeris Joins Lilly On Market With Approval Of Easier-To-Use Glucagon

 
• By Joseph Haas

Xeris’s Gvoke gets FDA approval, joining Lilly’s Baqsimi as products to treat emergency episodes of hypoglycemia with an easier-to-use kit. Xeris will launch its prefilled syringe in Q4 and an auto-injector in 2020.

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Easier-to-use glucagon kits should make life easier for diabetes patients

Xeris Pharmaceuticals Inc. obtained US Food and Drug Administration approval of Gvoke, its ready-to-use liquid glucagon for emergency cases of hypoglycemia in diabetes patients, on 10 September, getting the okay roughly six weeks after Eli Lilly & Co.’s nasal powder product Baqsimi was approved as the first non-injectable glucagon.

Xeris CEO Paul Edick said on a same-day investor call that Gvoke would be priced at par with Lilly’s product, which carries wholesale acquisition costs of $280.80 for a single-pack product and $561.60 for a two-pack

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