Cut-price drug venture takes aim at Pfizer and Astrazeneca
EQRX has closed two early-stage licensing deals to bring in small molecules that it hopes will shake up oncology pricing.
Gilead finally prices its Covid-19 drug
By pricing remdesivir at $2,340 for a five-day course Gilead has kept investors on side, but others will be disappointed.
Can Gilead make remdesivir pay?
Gilead has been rewarded handsomely, via share price gains, for its Covid-19 remdesivir work, but the potential costs should not be forgotten.
AHA 2019 – The Medicines Company reaches for the stars
Two more Orion trials have hit neatly and cleanly, and now success will be largely down to pricing.
US pricing watchdog spotlights an old pharma trick
Hiking the price of a drug before generics appear is a long-enshrined practice, a situation that applies to most of the products singled out by Icer.
How Labour’s UK generic drugs plan could have been better
Companies and investors have not completely dismissed the UK Labour party’s proposals for cheaper drugs – but some ideas have proven more equal than others.
Medtronic bets on flexibility for its surgical robots
The long-awaited robotic surgery system is designed to open up the market.
Pricing questions remain as Novo gets the nod for oral sema
Novo Nordisk says that oral semaglutide’s list price will be “similar” to Ozempic’s, but it will be a while before its true cost becomes apparent.
ESC 2019 – Amarin hopes for guideline boost despite regulatory delay
Amarin is plugging a change in ESC guidelines to include Vascepa, but with the product’s regulatory fate undecided how much difference will this make to sales?
