US FDA backs Pfizer’s hot flashes drug Duavee

4 October 2013
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US pharma behemoth Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) and partner Ligand Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: LGND) said late Thursday say that the US Food and Drug Administration has approved Duavee (conjugated estrogens/bazedoxifene) 0.45mg/20mg tablets, a novel therapy for women with a uterus, for the treatment of moderate-to-severe vasomotor symptoms associated with menopause and the prevention of postmenopausal osteoporosis.

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