Pfizer has bolstered its central nervous system (CNS) drugs portfolio with a $1.2 billion deal to claim rights outside the US to Biohaven's Nurtec ODT, an oral therapy for migraine.
AbbVie has added a third drug to its arsenal in the crowded migraine market, getting FDA approval for Qulipta – its once-daily oral preventive therapy for episodic migraines.
The concept of personalised medicine is becoming established in cancer, with an increasing number of drugs targeting specific mutations making it to market.
Novartis’ injectable migraine prevention antibody Aimovig has been shown to be more effective than topiramate – a go-to oral therapy for people with chronic migraine – in a head-to-head tri