AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the company’s single-dose, preservative-free formulation of Makena® (hydroxyprogesterone caproate injection). Makena is the only FDA-approved treatment indicated to reduce the risk of preterm birth in women who are pregnant with one baby and who have spontaneously delivered one preterm baby in the past.
The single-dose formulation is an expansion of the Makena product line. Packaged in trays of four (a month’s supply), the single-dose formulation provides an alternative package size to the current multi-dose vial, which contains five weekly injections.
AMAG currently expects to commercialize the new single-dose, preservative-free formulation of Makena in the second quarter of 2016.
