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Roche breast cancer drug at center of UK pricing row
Tuesday, November 17, 2015A Roche drug that can prolong the lives of some women with advanced breast cancer has been plunged back into the center of a drug pricing row after Britains health cost agency declared that it is still too expensive The standoff shows how the price...
FDA approves J&J drug for advanced multiple myeloma
Tuesday, November 17, 2015US regulators have approved an experimental treatment from Johnson Johnson that may offer hope to multiple myeloma patients who have run out of other options against the blood cancer The US Food and Drug Administration on Monday said it had approve...
Array BioPharma, Pierre Fabre announce collaboration for two novel oncology products
Tuesday, November 17, 2015Array BioPharma Inc Co and Pierre Fabre to globally develop and commercialize Arrays latestage novel oncology products Binimetinib and Encorafenib Array to receive a million upfront payment and up to million in additional development and commercia...
U.S. drug benefit managers clamp down on specialty pharmacies
Monday, November 16, 2015In recent days the largest US managers of private prescription drug benefits have cut off at least eight pharmacies that work closely with drugmakers intensifying scrutiny of a system that helps inflate drug prices officials at the benefit managers t...
Japan’s growing generic market woos more Indian pharma firms
Monday, November 16, 2015Four years after the last buyout more Indian pharmaceutical firms are eyeing acquisition opportunities in Japan the worlds second largest drug market Except Mumbaibased Lupin Ltd which made its second buyout in in Japan none of the Indian drug make...
Panel recommends Merck & Co continue cholesterol drug study
Saturday, November 14, 2015Merck Co said an independent data monitoring committee recommended that the drugmaker continue a study of its experimental cholesterol drug anacetrapib The recommendation comes a month after Eli Lilly Co stopped testing a similar cholesterol drug...
Sun Pharma eyes Novartis' branded portfolio in Japan
Saturday, November 14, 2015Sun Pharmaceutical Industries is believed to be in talks with Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis to acquire its branded drug portfolio in Japan If the deal happens it would be Suns second association with Japan It had acquired Ranbaxy Laboratories f...
AstraZeneca's potential $3 billion cancer pill wins early approval
Saturday, November 14, 2015A new lung cancer pill from AstraZeneca AZNL designed for patients whose disease has worsened after treatment with other therapies won early US approval on Friday in a boost for the British drugmaker Tagrisso also known as AZD is one of several canc...
Brasil Pharma sells money-losing unit for $12 million, seeks fresh capital
Friday, November 13, 2015Brazilian drugstore chain Brasil Pharma SA has sold a moneylosing subsidiary to a local investment firm for million reais million in an effort to return to profitability and cut debt BR Pharma as the company is known completed the sale of percent...
China rejects 11 drug applications over inadequate trial data
Friday, November 13, 2015China has signaled a tougher stance on drug quality in the countrys sprawling pharmaceuticals industry by rejecting applications for medicines with inadequate or suspect clinical data The China Food and Drug Administration CFDA said in statement po...
