A Drug With Efficacy Superior to That of Xenical Qnexa...
Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:38 amWALTHAM, Mass., June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms focusing on pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that a drug that is more effective than Roche's Xenical at inducing weight loss would earn a 40 percent patient share in the obesity drug market, according to surveyed primary care physicians. Although other efficacy measures-such as the effect on weight maintenance-are also important to prescribers, the biggest unmet need within this indication is a therapy that can consistently induce more than ten percent weight loss. The Food and Drug Administration currently requires that a drug elicit between five and ten percent weight loss to get approval......
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