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Neuropathic Pain - Emerging drugs fail to capitalize in lucrative market
The neuropathic pain market is forecast to double from 2006 to reach over $7 billion by 2016. At this time, the current late-stage neuropathic pain pipeline is forecast to take only 18% of the total market share, highlighting an opportunity for better pipeline drugs that demonstrate improved pain management. The most promising and closest pipeline drug to market is UCB's Vimpat (lacosamide).
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NICE: its impact on the UK healthcare system and beyond
NICE is one of the most advanced cost effectiveness assessment bodies operating in the major pharmaceutical markets. Since it was established it has had an increasing impact on the availability of new drugs in England and Wales, but has also generated considerable attention globally.
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Parkinson's Disease - Market to grow as first round of lifecycle management strategies succeed
The PD market is set to continue to grow over the next 7 years, reaching over $2.37 billion in 2013, a 39% increase from 2006 levels. Combinations, reformulations, and indication expansions will drive the majority of this growth, with key brands expected to be Novartis/Orion's Stalevo, GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK's) Requip Modutab, and UCB-Schwarz's Neupro.
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Cancer Overview - Increasing diversity offers both high risk and reward
In 2007, more than 3 million new cases of solid tumors are forecast to be diagnosed across the seven major pharmaceutical markets, obviously representing an enormous market potential. Lower incidence tumor types are becoming increasingly attractive to drug developers, due to high levels of unmet need which can result in significant financial rewards.
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Strategic issues - Potential remains uncertain
Significant barriers to entry into the biosimilars market exist. High up-front investment and the need for specific expertise favor big players. Understanding of the marketplace is critical for success acceptance by key stakeholders is crucial for market uptake of biosimilars and achieving preferential reimbursement status through constant review of the pricing strategy is desirable.
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HIV Therapy Dynamics
Despite several developments in efforts to tackle the spread of HIV, the total number of people living with HIV has continued to increase across the 6MM. However, significant advances in HIV disease understanding, treatment and management mean that the outlook for patients has considerably improved.
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Upper GI Disorders - Innovation needed to overcome generic threat
The upper GI market, defined as gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), peptic ulcer disease (PUD) and dyspepsia indications, achieved sales of just over $19 billion in 2006, with minimal growth since 2005. All major PPI brands will lose patent protection in the next 10 years, resulting in a major increase in generics and a declining market value.
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Allergic Rhinitis Market
The allergic rhinitis market will continue to decline over the next few years, after which it will resume limited growth due to the introduction of new compounds and combination products. These will drive the expansion of sales in existing classes as they exhibit safety and convenience advantages. Meanwhile, immunotherapy is expected to move from its niche position into mainstream therapy.
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Infertility - Optimizing a market bounded by social opinion and physician preference
The market for infertility drugs is a complex and dynamic arena shaped by numerous factors such as changing social attitudes, national legislation, and prescriber preferences. Brand strength and diverse portfolios have allowed Organon, Merck Serono and Ferring to secure a firm foothold in the market, worth over $1 billion in 2006, and represent tough competition.
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Antithrombotics - Market expands as disease management focuses on prevention
Datamonitor expects the antithrombotics market to peak at just over $20 billion in 2012, across the seven major markets. The growth will be driven by the uptake of the novel oral anticoagulants - Bayer's Xarelto and BI's Rendix - which are expected to launch simultaneously, in 2008.
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Renal Cancer - Targeted therapies rapidly take hold of market
In the 7 major markets, Datamonitor estimates that the incidence of RCC in 2007 will total 86,800 cases. Around 25% of all RCC patients are diagnosed with Stage IV disease; the 2-year survival rate for these patients is around 23%. This low survival rate and the fact that a significant proportion of Stage IIII patients relapse with Stage IV disease mean there is significant unmet need in RCC.
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Acute Stroke - TPA spurs infrastructure changes for the better
Stroke is one of the top three leading causes of death worldwide and an area of high unmet needs. TPA is limited to a low number of ischemic stroke patients due to a short therapeutic time window, but it is still the best therapy available. TPA is responsible for major changes and advances in the way stroke patients are cared for, which is expected to evolve further.
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Analysis of the Pharmaceutical Market to 2012 - Segmented by Drug Target Family
Drug targets are the critical link between drugs and their role in the treatment of medical disorders. By grouping drug targets into key protein families, this report provides a comprehensive analysis of the prescription pharmaceutical market by not just molecule type and therapy area, but also by target family.
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Molecular Targeted Cancer Therapies-Can anything else revolutionize the market?
Approaches to cancer treatment continue to incorporate molecular targeted therapies into standard treatment regimens. With an increasing number of candidates gaining approval, and with a dynamic developmental pipeline, further clinical, commercial and strategic challenges are continuing to emerge.
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Cardiovascular market overview - Raft of patent expires threaten blockbusters
Datamonitor expects the cardiovascular market to remain stable with sales only showing negligible growth between 2006 and 2016, below the 3% growth predicted for the SU sold. Generic products will become increasingly important as the majority of products will have lost IP protection, accounting for 30% of cardiovascular sales and 65% of SU sold in 2016.
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HBV drugs market
Fuelled by an increasing disease awareness, the growing use of new, expensive drugs as well as combination therapy, the HBV drugs market, sized at $431m in 2006 across the seven major markets, will nearly triple in size by 2016. Rapid growth until 2011 will slow down in the following years as a result of genericization and the beginning impact of routine HBV vaccination.
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Company Report
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Company Comparator Tool
The Comparator Tool builds from the PharmaVitae profiles of the 50 leading pharma companies. Updated monthly, the tool allows you to compare the 50 players by current and forecast sales to 2012.
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Systemic antifungals
The systemic antifungals market accounts for $3.1bn of the total $41bn anti-infectives market. A wave of new products coinciding with patent expiry of two widely used compounds will shake up the market for systemic infections, further polarizing between winners and losers. Key changes are forcing a rethink of management strategies and clinical trial design.
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