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23 February 2012



When the Republicans blinked last week in voting to adopt a measure that averts the 27.4% sustainable growth rate reduction in Medicare payments to physicians, which came as part legislation to provide a 2% payroll tax credit to 160 million Americans, President Barack Obama and the Democrats scored a major victory. But the Democratic head of the Senate health panel called it a "devil's deal" – insisting that the plan to take $5 billion away from health reform's prevention fund to pay for the so-called doc fix and the tax credit is a "grave mistake". Plus: Leukaemia drug shortage nears end; Tetraphase wins BARDA contract; and contraception fight continues. - Read more

 
The crucial Indian patent case concerning Novartis' anticancer Glivec (imatinib mesylate) and its rejection due to Section 3(d), a controversial provision in ...
With the drumbeat growing ever louder about the problem of patients unable to access critical life-saving drugs, FDA Commissioner Dr Margaret Hamburg used her ...
US regulators on 21 February raised concerns about the small size of the safety databases from the clinical trials of Forest Laboratories' and Almirall’s ...
The decision whether to permit Chelsea Therapeutics to market its drug Northera (droxidopa) in the US as a treatment to improve symptoms of neurogenic ...
 
The pharmaceutical development services firm CMIC has filed for the approval in Japan of Buphenyl (sodium phenylbutyrate), the lead product in its development portfolio of orphan drugs for ultra-rare ...
Novo Nordisk is developing what it views as itsstrongest ever pipeline in Japan, but faces a lull in new product launches this year before the series of new products begins to reach the market. The ...
The French company Servier has taken issue with the methodology used by researchers in a recent study to estimate the probable number of deaths and hospitalisations resulting from the use of its ...
Ligand Pharmaceuticals has licensed the rights to DARA (a dual acting receptor antagonist of angiotensin and endothelin receptors) to Retrophin and because the deal was completed after year-end 2011, ...
 
Takeda 's novel antibody therapy for inflammatory bowel disorders vedolizumab (MLN0002) has passed an important development hurdle, meeting its primary endpoints in a pivotal Phase III trial in ...
Shares of GTx sank after US regulators placed a clinical hold on Phase II studies of Capesaris (GTx-758), its investigational, nonsteroidal selective estrogen receptor alpha agonist, due to reports ...
Top-line results have been presented of the eye drug Eylea (aflibercept; also known as VEGF Trap-Eye) after one year of treatment in the Phase III GALILEO study in patients with macular oedema due to ...
The European Commission has granted approval for Roche /Plexxikon's ( Daiichi Sankyo ) BRAF inhibitor, Zelboraf (vemurafenib) as a monotherapy for the treatment of adult patients with BRAF V600 ...
 
New final guidance from NICE, the health technology appraisal body for England and Wales, has made Roche/Chugai's RoActemra (tocilizumab) available earlier in the treatment pathway for patients in ...
NICE , the health technology appraisal institute for England and Wales, has published final guidance recommending ALK-Abelló 's Pharmalgen as a treatment for bee and wasp venom allergy. The institute ...
NICE, the health technology appraisal institute for England and Wales, has said that it is issuing its final draft guidance to the NHS on Lilly/Amylin's GLP1-agonist, Bydureon (exenatide ...
Doctors treating patients with hepatitis C and HIV are being warned by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) that concentrations of ritonavir-boosted HIV protease inhibitors are reduced when given with ...
 
Duncan Whitney promoted to senior VP at Allegro Allegro Diagnostics , a molecular diagnostics company developing innovative genomic tests for the ...
Frank Booth made CMO as Sangart expands leadership team Sangart , a privately-held biopharmaceutical company focused on oxygen-therapeutics agents, has ...
Scott Whitcup joins Questcor board Biopharmaceutical company Questcor has appointed Dr Scott Whitcup to its board of directors. Dr ...

An EU patent court in search of a home
09 February 2012
Ian Schofield
Is there no end to the saga of the single EU patent? Just when it seemed agreement was near, the ...

Reality rears its head
20 February 2012

If any further evidence of the disconnection between drug registration and reimbursement hurdles ...

Germany: Orphan drug manufactures beware of the AMNOG 16 November 2011

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It’s finally here. For a while, a dark cloud has been looming ominously over the industry and, on ...
With rising trial costs and shrinking budgets, pharma companies are working more diligently than ...
Four years ago, Scrip 100 surveyed a broad and representive sample of those working in the ...

After a decade as an officer in the British Royal Marines, Charles Toomey was well prepared for ...

Scrip 100
30 December 2011
Scrip Intelligence has launched the latest Scrip 100, its annual look at the performance and ...

China is not immune to the economic morass of its major trading partners and it experienced a ...

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