Catalyst Pharmaceuticals has defended hiking the price of the rare disease drug Firdapse (amifampridine) from virtually nothing to more than $300,000 per year following criticism from Senat
With a Brexit deal still out of sight, there have been intensified warnings in the UK about potential disruptions to medicine supplies that could follow a no-deal scenario.
The UK’s cost-effectiveness regulator NICE and the its counterpart in Canada have launched a new collaboration to offer parallel scientific advice to the life sciences industry.
CEOs from Novartis and Eli Lilly have backed US government proposals to cut out “middlemen” in the health system, who have inflated the costs of their medicines.
Vertex has revealed financial figures that are likely to go down well with investors, but not patients in the UK who are eligible to receive the revolutionary drugs like Orkambi yet are bei
The fight to get Vertex’s cystic fibrosis drug Orkambi available on England’s NHS continues, after pressure groups called on the government to implement a little-known law allowing to set a