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`Business | Wed Feb 3, 2016 4:21am EST
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`Related: HEALTH
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`Drug companies are likely to launch seven "blockbuster" drugs in 2016, each with $1
`billion-plus annual sales potential, led by new treatments for liver disease and HIV,
`according to a Thomson Reuters analysis.
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`The assessment means the pharmaceuticals industry is on track for another productive
`year, although not as good as 2015, which saw the arrival of 11 new blockbusters.
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`The two top hits of 2016 are tipped to be Intercept Pharmaceuticals' (ICPT.O) chronic liver
`disease drug obeticholic acid, with a consensus sales forecast of $2.6 billion in 2020, and
`Gilead Sciences' (GILD.O) new fixed dose HIV drug emtricitabine plus tenofovir
`alafenamide, on $2.0 billion.
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`Other products expected to launch this year with forecast sales above $1 billion in 2020
`include a new hepatitis C drug from Merck (MRK.N) and a leukemia medicine from AbbVie
`(ABBV.N), according to the annual "Drugs to Watch" report.
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`Two keenly awaited Roche ROG.VX drugs, each with forecast sales of around $3 billion,
`are not on list because it is unclear if atezolizumab for cancer and ocrelizumab for multiple
`sclerosis will be commercially available this year or next.
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`(Reporting by Ben Hirschler Editing by Jeremy Gaunt)
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