COPD Market Snapshot: New Products, Limited Differentiation
Executive Summary
New drugs are hitting the COPD market, but largely offer incremental benefit over gold standards Advair and Spiriva. Given the modest efficacy improvement and increasingly price sensitive patients and payers, new higher-priced products may find the commercial market a challenge.
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