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UPDATE 1-Solvay ends research on obesity drug
17 Nov 2008 17:26, Reuters
... once-promising class of drugs for obesity to be shelved. ) pulled the plug on Acomplia -- once its biggest new drug hope -- while Pfizer (PFE.N: ) announced on ...
Tough regulatory climate sees Solvay end trials of SLV319
17 Nov 2008 12:54, PharmaTimes
... associated with serious psychiatric disorders. The most high-profile drug in the latter class was Acomplia (rimonabant) from Sanofi-Aventis. At the beginning of November, the French drugmaker terminated all its ...
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Despite failures, search for obesity drugs still looks golden
15 Nov 2008 21:19, Yahoo News
... which had stoked huge expectations at its launch in 2006. Rimonabant -- brand name Acomplia -- ran into a flurry of ever-tougher warnings from European watchdogs about potential psychiatric ...
According to the data provided by the Decision Resources Research company, the market of anti-obesity medications and therapies is likely to grow five times by the year 2016.
The company’s analysts anticipate that the market worth approximately $478 million 2 years ago will reach almost $3 billion within the next 8 years in the USA and Western Europe.
The report projects that such an incredible market growth will be mostly driven by the expected launch of a number of therapies such as Lorcaserin manufactured by Arena Pharmaceuticals and a combination of Pramlintide and Leptin delivered by Amylin. However, the report also predicts that the cautious attitude of the FDA towards the newly developed anti-obesity medications can significantly slow down the projected growth rates. The authors of the report base their opinion on the case of Rimonabant (Acomplia) manufactured by Sanofi-Aventis and the safety concerns over similar drugs in the class such as tranabant.
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