Eli Lilly is hoping new data from its Taltz (ixekizumab) could give it another potentially lucrative indication and put pressure on Novartis’ rival IL-17a drug, Cosentyx.
Eli Lilly’s Taltz has beaten AbbVie’s blockbuster Humira in a psoriatic arthritis study involving patients who hadn’t been treated before with a disease-modifying drug, but only just.