Merck & Co's new combo asthma drug expected to garner peak year sales of over $250 million

10 February 2010

Following its expected launch this year for the treatment of asthma, US drug major Merck & Co's formoterol/mometasone combination will garner peak year sales of more than $250 million in the USA, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK, according to a new report from Decision Resources.

The Pharmacor 2010 finding from the topic titled Asthma reveals that formoterol/mometasone, a twice-daily long acting beta2 agonist (LABA)/inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) combination, will launch in 2010 in the USA and in Europe as a maintenance treatment for asthma in patients aged 12 years or older.

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