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15 August 2011

SUMAVEL DosePro – Patients like needle free injections

Patients like DosePro needle free injections – at least compared to their previous triptan treatment.their phase 4 clinical study, which was an open label study to see if triptan patients were happy with the switch to SUMAVEL DosePro, a needle free injection system for sumatriptan we’ve talked about before. The results say that patients who currently use triptans in the treatment of multiple migraine attacks reported a higher level of satisfaction, confidence and preference for SUMAVEL DosePro.

The results will be published in the September issue of the journal Headache, The Journal of Head and Face Pain.

The leading author of the study was Dr. Roger K. Cady, associate executive chairman of the National Headache Foundation board of directors. Dr. Cady says about DosePro:

"The Phase 4 study results support the use of SUMAVEL DosePro as an important treatment option for migraine patients, such as those with aggressive, rapid-onset attacks. It provides a fast-acting and easy-to-use injectable triptan therapy option for patients to use as part of their migraine toolbox in conjunction with their oral triptan medications so that the right medication can be used for specific attacks."

10 November 2009

Easy injections and needle-free injections

James Medications, News 5

Progress is being made to make needle-free injections widely available. The DosePro needle free system is one of these. Zogenix plans to launch SUMAVEL DosePro in January (2010), a needle free sumatriptan injection.

Certain studies have suggested that taking your abortive medication earlier during your migraine attack is critical. But the fact remains, if you’re going to take the medicine, the sooner it gets into your system the better.

An injection allows you to get the relief that the medicine offers within minutes. And the DosePro system is very easy and quick.

You may notice, however, that whatever the inference may be, this system is not being marketed as "pain-free". Yes, it still hurts. Though it may have advantages over a needle injection, being painless isn’t one of those advantages.

Some patients aren’t aware that there are now very easy needle injections out there as well. Even needle injections have come a long way since the days of one big needle, careful handling, and all the other horrors you may imagine.

Patients can use a simple pen like device to give themselves a quick injection, and they may find faster, more effective relief over the oral medicine.

More on the upcoming release of SUMAVEL DosePro
Thoughts from Dr. Alexander Mauskop on injections

24 March 2008

DosePro: toward needle-free injections

James Medications, News 2

A world where you can inject yourself without a needle? Well, we’re one step closer.

I’ve injected myself with medication – maybe you have too. There are few things worse, in my opinion, than asking someone with a migraine attack to poke something sharp into her/his skin. But the technology is progressing through the system – technology which will get the medication where it’s needed fast – no need to put anything in your mouth, no need to shove something up your nose, no need to put a needle in your skin.

I first wrote about Intraject back in 2004. Since then there has been a merging of companies and a renaming of the product. The company is Zogenix, and the product is now called DosePro.

Sumatriptan DosePro is the specific product which is now moving through the system in the USA. The product now has an official application with the FDA, and it will be reviewed (all going well) later this year. It will be marketed for both cluster and migraine. Sumatriptan is, of course, a common migraine-fighter, a triptan, marketed as Imigran and Imitrex.

Administered to the thigh or abdomen, it only takes a tenth of a second. Tests so far indicate it’s every bit as good at fighting an attack as an injection. But, as we all know – the less pain the better!

More on the recent application of Sumatriptan DosePro here.