Judge blocks Colorado's first-of-its-kind price cap on Amgen's Enbrel

By Jonathan Stempel July 1 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Wednesday blocked Colorado from capping the price of Amgen's ...
West Central Tribune

Froma Harrop: Enbrel makes the list for price negotiations

I'm one of 47,000 Medicare recipients lucky enough to receive a drug that my old rheumatologist, who originally prescribed it for me, described as a miracle. When he was a young doctor, he told me, ...
Rolling Stone

Colorado Is Trying to Cap a Drug’s Price. Big Pharma Has Other Plans

A state board in Colorado is working to make history by becoming the first in the country to cap the price of a drug it deems unaffordable. Amid an aggressive industry lobbying campaign, Colorado ...
RealClearPolitics

Enbrel Makes the List

The U.S. government this week released the list of the 10 medications that will be the first to be the subject of the new price negotiations under the Medicare reform bill, and my arthritis drug, ...
The Greeley Tribune

Enbrel drugmaker sues over Colorado’s potential price cap, says prescription drug board is unconstitutional

A drugmaker whose product could be the first subjected to a price cap in Colorado is suing to throw out the state board that deemed its medication unaffordable. In February, the Colorado Prescription ...
EurekAlert!

Enbrel only TNF receptor with five years sustained data in treatment of rheumatoid arthritis

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., and RADNOR, Penn., – New data from multiple studies evaluating the use of ENBREL® (etanercept), the only fully human TNF receptor, in patients with long-standing disease, as ...
EurekAlert!

ENBREL is first therapy approved for psoriatic arthritis

SEATTLE, WA – Immunex Corporation (Nasdaq: IMNX) and Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories, a division of American Home Products (NYSE: AHP) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ...
Medical Xpress

Colorado prescription drug board declares Enbrel unaffordable in national first

A Colorado board voted unanimously Feb. 16 to consider setting a maximum price for a drug to treat autoimmune diseases, launching the state into uncharted territory and setting up a possible showdown ...
RAPS

FDA Staff: Sandoz’s Enbrel Biosimilar is ‘Highly Similar’ to Amgen's Blockbuster

Another clear sign that the US biosimilars market is off to a good start appeared on Monday, with staff of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) concluding that Sandoz’s biosimilar, known ...
The Denver Post

Colorado moves to cap price of arthritis drug Enbrel in first-in-the-nation action by state affordability board

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A Colorado board voted to move forward with setting a price ceiling on the arthritis drug Enbrel on Friday, a first-in-the-nation step that raises questions ...
Reuters

Amgen's Enbrel in kids 'concerning'-FDA staff

WASHINGTON, June 16 (Reuters) - U.S. Food and Drug Administration reviewers are concerned about life-threatening complications in children taking Amgen Inc's drug Enbrel for psoriasis and other ...