Price fixing case caps a terrible week for generics
Shares in generics firms tumble in the wake of a huge lawsuit in the US alleging industry-wide price fixing, signalling many more years of pain for this sector.
Boehringer’s digital drive starts bearing fruit
Less than two years after setting up its BI X digital lab, Boehringer Ingelheim is ready to start clinical trials of a programme monitoring speech patterns to diagnose…
Should gene therapy patients be asked to pay?
The price in value-based payment deals should by definition be justified, so why is patient cost-sharing part of the calculation? Spark covers this cost, but there is no…
After Alzheimer’s collapse, Biogen must win Tecfidera patent challenge
A successful Mylan challenge would see generic entry within two years – though Biogen has fought off copycats before.
How to pay for gene therapies in developing nations
With rich countries like the US finding it hard to fund gene therapies, it is worth asking whether these projects will ever reach patients in developing countries. And if…
China’s blueprint for a checkpoint blocker price war
A price war over anti-PD-(L)1 drugs is raging in China, less than a year after the first one was approved. When could the US see something similar?
Circassia finds a second way to put investors’ money under threat
Business development decisions have started the clock on a financial time bomb set to go off within the next three months.
Imbruvica resistance provides early but fertile development ground
Targeting a mechanism of resistance to first-generation BTK inhibitors has caught the attention of biotechs like Arqule, which claimed a major success last week.
Bristol’s doomsday scenario: could Opdivo start shrinking next year?
Fears about flattening Opdivo sales were surely a major driver for Bristol's move for Celgene. To keep growing the checkpoint inhibitor needs some big clinical wins.
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