Horizon Buying Maker Of Gout Drug For $510 Million

By | December 11, 2015

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Specialty drugmaker Horizon Pharma (HZNP) agreed to buy privately held Crealta Holdings for $510 million in cash Friday, bringing it an orphan-disease drug with a troubled history. Last year, Crealta acquired Savient, maker of Krystexxa, a treatment for refractory gout. Krystexxa was launched in 2010 but never reached its full potential, according to Cowen analyst Eric Schmidt. “Savient admitted that Krystexxa’s launch was under-resourced, owing Scalper1 News

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