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Market Snapshot: Three Acute Migraine Launches Are First In Over 20 Years

 
• By Mandy Jackson

Lilly, Allergan and Biohaven plan to launch oral drugs for on-demand treatment of migraine attacks in the first quarter, hoping to harness a large market where new preventive therapies are already competing for patients.

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Acute treatments are used to stop migraines when they occur • Source: Shutterstock

Migraine impacts a billion people globally, including about 39 million patients in the US alone, representing a very large market that still has a lot of unmet needs despite the availability of well-known generic drugs for both prevention and acute treatment. And while three new preventive therapies launched in the US in 2018, three new acute migraine treatments may reach the market in early 2020.

The first three calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) inhibitors to reach the market as preventative therapies – Amgen Inc./Novartis AG’s Aimovig (erenumab), Eli Lilly & Co.’s Emgality (galcanezumab) and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.’s Ajovy (fremanezumab) – have yet to achieve blockbuster status despite the large size of the migraine market, but the products have brought renewed interest to the migraine space (see sidebar)

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