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Amarin (AMRN) Vascepa Prescriptions Still Showing Strong Growth (GSK)

June 19, 2013 7:51 AM EDT
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Amarin (Nasdaq: AMRN) is ticking higher early following new Vascepa data from Symphony Health, compiled by Bloomberg Industries (BI).

For its 22nd week on the market, Vascepa prescriptions rose 16 percent to 3,879.0 for the week ended June 7th. That compares with 3,336.0 prescriptions the prior week.

Vascepa competitor, GlaxoSmithKline's (NYSE: GSK) Lovaza, saw just a 12 percent gain in prescriptions to 97,945.0.

No channel blocking or change in projection methodology has been applied to Vascepa since launch, BI said.

Ahead of the bell, Amarin is up 2.4 percent.


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