Boehringer Ingelheim has said it has axed ex-US development of its biosimilars, focusing instead on getting its Humira near-copy on the US market as soon as possible.
NICE has given Bayer’s advanced liver cancer therapy Stivarga (regorafenib) the go-ahead after it undertook a rapid review following earlier guidance that rejected the drug.
A second cut-price biosimilar of Amgen’s Neulasta (pegfilgrastim) long-acting white blood cell booster is to hit the EU market after the European Commission approved Mundipharma’s Pelmeg.
The UK government has reached a new five-year medicines pricing deal with the pharma industry to replace the almost 60-year-old Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme (PPRS).
Spark Therapeutics’ gene therapy for a rare inherited sight disorder, Luxturna has been approved in Europe, but there was still no word on price from marketing partner Novartis.
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