litigation

News

A lot of empty plastic blister packaging of pharmaceutical tablets and pills on blue background. Concept of end of treatment, the lack of medicines in the pharmacy or the impossibility to get them

Pharmacy chains agree $10bn settlement in opioid litigation

CVS Health and Walgreens have become the first two US pharmacy chains to agree a settlement worth nearly $10 billion to answer allegations they played a role in the opioid epidemic that has

News

Novartis facing Gilenya generics again as Supreme Court lift...

Novartis' hopes that the Supreme Court would protect its big-selling multiple sclerosis drug Gilenya from generic competition have been dashed.

News

Supreme court throws Novartis a lifeline for Gilenya defense

In a dramatic change in fortunes, Novartis has won a major victory in its bid to defend oral multiple sclerosis therapy Gilenya from early generic competition in the US.

News

Whistleblower gets $250m as Biogen settles US kickbacks case

Biogen has finalised a $900 million payment to settle a whistleblower lawsuit claiming that it paid kickbacks to US doctors to prescribe its multiple sclerosis drugs.

News

Astellas facing generics to big-selling Lexiscan product in ...

Astellas has won a reprieve in its attempt to stop Pfizer's generic medicines unit Hospira launching a copycat version of its pharmacologic stress agent Lexiscan in the US – but only for a

News