ESC 2019 – Medicines Company impresses with inclisiran
With decent efficacy and clean safety in the Orion-11 trial, questions now turn to pricing and whether The Medicines Company will be taken out.
The PCSK9 wars continue, but at what cost?
Amgen's aggressive legal pursuit of Sanofi and Regeneron's Praluent might work, but will the PCSK9 developers ever recoup their costs?
Upcoming events – Rare disease data due from Chemocentryx and Sanofi
Chemocentryx and Sanofi are looking to target the complement pathway in ANCA-associated vasculitis and cold agglutinin disease respectively, with phase III data due in…
Biopharma's biggest sellers – the oldies that just keep giving
Patent expiries and challenges have done little to halt the sales of some of the industry's biggest products.
A recap on the past few months of data digging and analysis
Using EvaluatePharma data Vantage explored investment trends in biopharma and medtech, sales per employee at big drug makers, and the declining number of late-stage…
Lexicon and Sanofi fall out over semantics
Citing study failure, Sanofi terminates its tie-up with Lexicon covering Zynquista; not so fast, says Lexicon, and claims breach of contract.
Medicines Company goes on the hunt for heartening Orion data
The Medicines Company needs to show decent efficacy and pristine safety with its long-lasting PCSK9 inclisiran to stand a chance of disrupting the market.
Abbvie proves the best at getting the most out of its workers
On sales per employee Abbvie and Bristol-Myers Squibb lead the big pharma pack, while Sanofi and Astrazeneca are the sector laggards.
German Merck watches evobrutinib’s benefit melt away
Merck KGaA’s BTK inhibitor had been hailed as the first to show activity in multiple sclerosis, but full clinical results cast doubt on this claim.
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