–Experts offer insight about Entresto at the ESC. Despite its success in a large and widely praised clinical trial the novel heart failure drug Entresto (sacubitril/valsartan, Novartis) has been struggling to gain a substantial foothold in the marketplace. Now new papers and presentations and commentary from experts at the European Society of Cardiology meeting are…
New Cardio Drugs Off To Very Slow Start
April 27, 2016 by Leave a Comment
–Heart failure experts divided over how and when to use Entresto To many long-time observers, the approval last year of two new cholesterol drugs and a heart failure drug appeared to herald a rebirth of the cardiovascular marketplace after a long period of dormancy. But so far in 2016, those new drugs have hardly made…
Top HF Expert Decries ‘Unbelievable Folly’ of Clinical Trials and Guidelines
March 23, 2016 by Leave a Comment
–Milton Packer, MD, calls the system to test and evaluate heart failure drugs dysfunctional The system is completely broken, writes heart failure specialist Milton Packer, MD, in an editorial in Circulation: Heart Failure. The results of important clinical trials are not being incorporated into guidelines quickly, intelligently, or consistently, Packer argued. The most important reason…
Slow Start For ‘Blockbuster’ Heart Failure Drug Entresto
January 28, 2016 by 2 Comments
Entresto, the new heart failure drug from Novartis that is widely expected to be a blockbuster, is off to an exceptionally slow start. Approved last July, the drug, formerly known as LCZ 696, had sales of only $21 million in 2015, only $5 million of which came in the fourth quarter. Despite low expectations in the early…
PARADIGM Investigators Estimate Entresto Prolongs Life by 1-2 Years
December 2, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Treatment with Entresto (the combination of sacubitril and valsartan, formerly known as LCZ 696) instead of an ACE inhibitor will add approximately one to two years of life for most people taking the drug, according to new estimates published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Because of the time and population limitations of clinical trials it…
Novartis Heart Failure Drug Gains Approval In Europe
November 24, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Entresto, the novel heart failure drug from Novartis, has now been approved in Europe. The company said the drug, a twice-a-day combination of sacubitril and valsartan (formerly known as LCZ 696), had been approved by the European Commission for the treatment of people with symptomatic chronic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF). The news follows previous approval of the drug by…
Slow Start For New Novartis Heart Failure Drug Entresto
November 2, 2015 by 1 Comment
Initial sales of Entresto (the combination of sacubitril and valsartan, formerly known as LCZ696) have been slow. In the first few months after its approval in July the drug only had $16 million in sales, the drug’s manufacturer, Novartis, reported last week during its quarterly earnings report. The novel heart failure drug is widely expected to be…
Cost Effectiveness Of Entresto And CardioMEMS Evaluated
September 14, 2015 by 1 Comment
The new Novartis heart failure drug Entresto (the combination of sacubitril and valsartan, formerly known as LCZ696) is cost effective but the CardioMEMS monitoring system (St. Jude Medical) is not, according to draft reports issued last week by the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER). The same organization released a widely discussed report about the cost…
Novartis Heart Failure Drug Gains Speedy FDA Approval
July 7, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Entresto, Novartis’s novel heart failure (HF) drug, gained FDA approval earlier today. The approval arrived 6 weeks ahead of the drug’s action date. Formerly known as LCZ 696, the drug had already received a fast track designation and an expedited review under the FDA’s priority review program.Novartis said the wholesale acquisition cost of Entresto will be $12.50 per day, less discounts….
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