{"title":"Biosimilars and Safety Issues","authors":"E. Yiannakopoulou","doi":"10.4172/2167-1052.1000e143","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays there is ongoing interest in the development of biosimilars, as biosimilars are anticipated to lead to price competition and to lower healthcare costs The first biosimilar, Omnitrope®, a biosimilar agent of the Recombinant Human Growth Hormone [rhGH]; was approved in Europe by the European Medicines Agency in 2006. Since then, 20 biosimilars have been approved in Europe including hematopoietic growth factors, insulin, monoclonal antibodies.","PeriodicalId":7385,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety","volume":"181 1","pages":"1-1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2017-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Advances in Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2167-1052.1000e143","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Nowadays there is ongoing interest in the development of biosimilars, as biosimilars are anticipated to lead to price competition and to lower healthcare costs The first biosimilar, Omnitrope®, a biosimilar agent of the Recombinant Human Growth Hormone [rhGH]; was approved in Europe by the European Medicines Agency in 2006. Since then, 20 biosimilars have been approved in Europe including hematopoietic growth factors, insulin, monoclonal antibodies.