Prasco to market authorized colchicine generic in the US

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Prasco to market authorized colchicine generic in the US

Generics/News | Posted 23/01/2015 0 Post your comment

US generics maker, Prasco Laboratories (Prasco), announced on 12 January 2015 that it had entered into an alliance with the US subsidiary of Japanese pharmaceutical company, Takeda, to distribute an authorized generic version of Colcrys (colchicine) in the US.

Colcrys is indicated for the prophylaxis and treatment of acute gout flares in adults and the treatment of familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) in adults and children aged four years or older. Colcrys is part of Takeda’s gout treatment portfolio and was launched commercially in the US in 2009. Gout affects an estimated 8.3 million Americans.

Colchicine tablets will be marketed under the Prasco label and will be the only colchicine product on the market that is therapeutically equivalent and automatically substitutable for prescriptions written for Colcrys.

The gout treatment recently came under scrutiny due to huge price increases, which came about reportedly as a result of US FDA’s 2006 Unapproved Drugs initiative [1].

The partnership ‘will help enhance patient access to an important gout medicine by supplying Prasco with Colchicine Tablets, USP, manufactured under the same rigorous standards and processes as Colcrys’, according to Mr Douglas Cole, President, Takeda Pharmaceuticals USA.

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Reference
1. GaBI Online - Generics and Biosimilars Initiative. Another old drug to see huge price increase in US [www.gabionline.net]. Mol, Belgium: Pro Pharma Communications International; [cited 2015 Jan 23]. Available from: www.gabionline.net/Policies-Legislation/Another-old-drug-to-see-huge-price-increase-in-US

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