10 January 2019 - NICE has said that a new drug for preventing migraine is not a cost effective use of NHS resources, in draft guidance published today.

The guidance looks at erenumab (also called Aimovig and made by Novartis) for preventing chronic and episodic migraine in adults who have 4 episodes or more of migraine every month and where at least 3 other preventive treatments haven’t worked.

Costing around £5,000 per year (not including a confidential price discount which would have applied if NICE had recommended the drug) erenumab is the first treatment to target the process by which proteins cause blood vessels in the brain to swell, leading to the symptoms of migraine.

Read NICE press release