How is Amgen going to make up for that?
One of the things that has affected that drug is these high co-pays that I talked about, and we’ve taken steps to relieve consumers of that burden. We’re making sure that consumers don’t pay any more than a nominal amount in co-pay, and we basically will handle the co-pays for them. Why are investors and the industry so interested in denosumab? Denosumab is a drug for osteoporosis. It has a new mechanism of action. It works on the bone biology to slow down the molecule that chews up the bone. You only have to take a shot twice a year, and you’re protected from osteoporosis. We’ve very, very excited about it. We’re also developing it for a kind of bone cancer, and we look forward to the final results of those trials this year. This has been a drug we’ve worked on for 15 years. We did the fundamental biology and invested over $1 billion. I bet my job on it. So I was happy that it turned out okay. What happens next? We’re working with the FDA now, and it’s not over till it’s over, and you
