FDA quash­es block­buster dreams at Eli Lil­ly and In­cyte, of­fer­ing a se­vere­ly lim­it­ed ap­proval for Olu­mi­ant

Vi­sions of block­buster sales for the rheuma­toid arthri­tis drug baric­i­tinib were quashed by the FDA’s ap­proval to­day. Reg­u­la­tors came through with an OK for the low, 2 mg dose of the drug, to be mar­ket­ed as Olu­mi­ant, spurn­ing the 4 mg dose that they had been seek­ing and lim­it­ing the pa­tient pop­u­la­tion to TNF re­sis­tant cas­es.

The reg­u­la­to­ry OK al­so comes with a black box warn­ing for the drug’s side ef­fects, which in­cludes a star­tling sig­nal on throm­boem­bolism.

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