Biosimilars

Since biosimilars first launched, unique pricing incentives and strategies have been created to incentives adoption.

As medication experts, pharmacists can advocate to organizational decision makers around the benefits of biosimilars.

According to Michael Osso, president and chief executive officer of the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation, “the flexibility of having multiple biosimilar formulations to choose from is important to support broader patient access to biologic medicine.”

This approval is the second biosimilar approval for manufacturer Alvotech.

Despite the significant growth of biosimilars, their adoption across various therapeutic areas has remained slow.

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The biosimilar represents a comprehensive, accessible, and high-quality treatment option for patients in the US treated with tocilizumab.

The agency approved denosumab-bddz under two brand names: Wyost and Jubbonti.

Simlandi is the only biosimilar to Humira on the market that is high-concentration, citrate-free, and interchangeable.

Large pharmacy benefit managers have switched up their coverage of biosimilars this year—especially for biosimilars to adalimumab.

According to the most recent Global Use of Medicine report issued by the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science, losses for originator products are projected to rise by over $80 billion over the next 5 years due to market introductions of new biosimilar and generic drugs.

Researchers used an online English-language survey questionnaire to collect data on pharmacists from Germany and Switzerland about how their knowledge and dispensing frequency of biologics and biosimilars changed from before and after the pandemic.

Check out our recap of last year's advancements made in the vaccine, biosimilar, and therapeutic spaces.

In addition to the numerous adalimumab (Humira) biosimilars that launched this year, multiple new biosimilar products were approved by the FDA in 2023.

Most patients were not concerned about losing control over their disease after switching.

Attendees at an AMCP Nexus 2023 session received an overview of FDA approvals granted in 2023 as well as a preview of nononcology drugs to be released over the next 5 years.

During a session at AMCP Nexus 2023, presenters discussed the delicate balance between cost and innovation as it relates to forthcoming oncology treatments.

Ustekinumab-auub is approved for use in both adult and pediatric populations.

Newly approved by the FDA, Celltrion’s infliximab-dyyb (Zymfentra) offers patients with inflammatory bowel disease a more innovative administrative approach to infliximab treatment.

Lower costs, increased availability, and assistance programs are “game changers” for patients.

Boehringer Ingelheim’s unbranded adalimumab-adbm biosimilar will be available at an 81% discount to adalimumab (Humira).

Matthew Lee, vice president of sales and marketing at MedOne, led a discussion about trends in care management from a PBM and health perspective.

The clinical pharmacist will play an important role as a medication expert, filling in for the role that pharmaceutical manufacturers once did in supporting patients and prescribers.

Sandoz's injection treatment natalizumab-sztn (Tyruko) is the first biosimilar approved by the health agency for the treatment of multiple sclerosis.

Researchers at the 2023 American Academy of Dermatology Association Annual Meeting discussed the effects of product complexity on preclinical testing, among other topics.

The news comes almost 2 weeks after Cyltezo’s entrance into the US biosimilars market as the first commercially available and FDA-approved interchangeable adalimumab biosimilar.

The company will also add Sandoz’s unbranded version of adalimumab to its National Preferred Formulary.

The Humira biosimilar is a tumor necrosis factor (TNF) blocker and was approved by the FDA in 2021.

These medications join adalimumab-atto, which launched on January 31.

Boehringer Ingelheim’s Cyltezo is the first and only FDA-approved interchangeable biosimilar to adalimumab.