NICE has said a combination of Merck KGaA’s Bavencio and Pfizer’s Inlyta should be available as a first line option for kidney cancer patients for NHS patients in England.
Patients in some European countries are waiting up to six times longer for access to medicines than their neighbours, according to a survey by Europe’s pharma trade body.
Novartis is set to launch its one-off gene therapy Zolgensma for the ultra-rare muscle-wasting disease spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) in Germany at the start of July priced at 1,945,000 euro