{"id":431,"date":"2013-04-26T12:39:16","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T10:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medizone-germany.de\/?p=431"},"modified":"2016-01-21T20:06:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T18:06:09","slug":"cipla-launches-enbrel-biosimilar-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medizone.com\/en\/cipla-launches-enbrel-biosimilar-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Cipla launches Enbrel biosimilar in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cipla has launched the first biosimilar of Pfizer and Amgen&#8217;s rheumatic disorder blockbuster Enbrel in India. The company will sell its version of Enbrel (etanercept) under the brand name Etacept which will be manufactured by China&#8217;s Shanghai CP Guojian Pharmaceutical Co. The drug signals Cipla&#8217;s entry into the biologic segment, it said, &#8220;offering an option to patients suffering from rheumatic disorders at a lower cost&#8221;. The Mumbai-based group&#8217;s medical director Jaideep Gogtay said &#8220;the higher cost of biologics has been a major hindrance, limiting its affordability and accessibility to millions of patients&#8221;. He added that introducing Etacept at a lower cost (at 6,150 rupees, 30% less than the innovator product) &#8220;will enable access of this drug to a greater number of patients in India&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cipla has launched the first biosimilar of Pfizer and Amgen&#8217;s rheumatic disorder blockbuster Enbrel in India. The company will sell its version of Enbrel (etanercept) under the brand name Etacept which will be manufactured by China&#8217;s Shanghai CP Guojian Pharmaceutical Co. The drug signals Cipla&#8217;s entry into the biologic segment, it said, &#8220;offering an option [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medizone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medizone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medizone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medizone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medizone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/medizone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1225,"href":"https:\/\/medizone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/1225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medizone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medizone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medizone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}