Ascendis Will Take On Daily Genotropin With Weekly Skytrofa
Company Will Try To Assert Superiority Claim
Executive Summary
Ascendis’s growth hormone deficiency drug Skytrofa will offer a convenience advantage as a weekly injectable. But the label does not clearly delineate superiority shown in a Phase III trial.
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