Amgen and UCB's Evenity (Romosozumab) Receive CHMP Positive Opinion to Treat Severe Osteoporosis in Postmenopausal Women at High Risk of Fracture
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- The EMA’s CHMP has adopted a positive opinion recommending marketing authorization for Evenity (romosozumab) based on P-III global studies including FRAME- ARCH and BRIDGE studies assessing Evenity vs PBO and active comparator in ~11-000 postmenopausal women with osteoporosis at high risk of fracture and with no history of MI or stroke
- The CHMP’s recommendation will be reviewed by EC to approve therapy in Europe with its anticipated decision by the year-end 2019
- Evenity is a bone-forming mAb- act by inhibiting the activity of sclerostin thus resulted in increased bone formation and to a lesser extent decreased bone resorption and is an approved therapy in the US & Japan- South Korea for the treatment of osteoporosis in women & women and men at high risk for fracture respectively
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