Striking Phase III data for potentially game-changing new class of migraine therapy

30 November 2017
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Switzerland’s Novartis (NOVN: VX) today has published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine positive results from the Phase III STRIVE study, which is designed to evaluate the firm’s migraine candidate erenumab.

The trial met all primary and secondary endpoints scoring significant improvements against placebo according to a measure of migraine impact.

At the higher tested dose, patients in the test group experienced a 3.7-day reduction in monthly migraine days, from the baseline of 8.3 days.

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