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Yselty For Uterine Fibroids Edges Closer To Being Obseva’s First Commercial Product

 
• By Jessica Merrill

Positive data from a second Phase III trial will support regulatory filings for linzagolix in the US and Europe, but the GnRH agonist is behind two rival drugs: AbbVie's elagolix and Myovant's relugolix.

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ObsEsva is looking to join a competitive women's health category • Source: Shutterstock

ObsEva SA's Yselty (linzagolix) is positioned, with data announced on 6 July, to be the third gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) receptor antagonist on the market in the US for the treatment of heavy menstrual bleeding in women with uterine fibroids, but it will be the Swiss biopharma's first commercial product if it successfully clears regulatory approval.

"If approved, linzagolix would be the first commercial product for ObsEva, turning us from a pure development organization to one also commercializing a new therapy for women with a high unmet

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