Ab­b­Vie wins an ap­proval in uter­ine fi­broid-as­so­ci­at­ed heavy bleed­ing. Are ri­vals My­ovant and Ob­sE­va far be­hind?

Women ex­pel on av­er­age about 2 to 3 ta­ble­spoons of blood dur­ing their time of the month. But with uter­ine fi­broids, heavy bleed­ing is typ­i­cal — a third of a cup or more. Drug­mak­ers have been work­ing on oral ther­a­pies to try and stem the flow, and as ex­pect­ed, Ab­b­Vie and their part­ners at Neu­ro­crine Bio­sciences are the first to make it across the fin­ish line.

Known chem­i­cal­ly as elagolix, the drug is al­ready ap­proved as a treat­ment for en­dometrio­sis un­der the brand name Orilis­sa. It tar­gets the GnRH re­cep­tor to de­crease the pro­duc­tion of es­tro­gen and prog­es­terone.

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