Time will tell whether what the Trump administration is calling a “historic” and “landmark” trade agreement with China will better enable drug and device companies to more fairly compete in the Chinese market without having to sacrifice their intellectual property (IP) and technology.
Time will tell whether what the Trump administration is calling a “historic” and “landmark” trade agreement with China will better enable drug and device companies to more fairly compete in the Chinese market without having to sacrifice their intellectual property (IP) and technology.
In the final debate before the Iowa caucuses, the six leading contenders to be the Democratic presidential candidate had an opportunity to lay out how they would deal with U.S. prescription drug prices.
As a word to the wise in a week filled with FDA advisory committee meetings on potential new opioid drugs, the state of Oklahoma filed a lawsuit Monday against three distributors, reminding everyone in the U.S. opioid prescription supply chain of the risk of litigation and hefty penalties.
SAN FRANCISCO – Atop the stage where, just a year ago, he'd detailed the then-new $74 billion acquisition of Celgene Corp, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. CEO Giovanni Caforio told attendees of this year's J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference he intends to plunge ahead with "the agility and speed of a biotech company."
As regular as clockwork, U.S. patients were hit with a spate of price hikes on prescription drugs last week – even as they were faced with once again having to meet their hefty annual deductibles.
For biopharma, 2019 can be described as a terrific year – with a few asterisks. The financial markets were flourishing, with venture capital dollars, in particular, flowing to the sector, while dealmaking reached historic proportions. Meanwhile, scientific breakthroughs led the way as cell and gene therapies gained ground, the first signs of success emerged with new technologies like CRISPR and the long-awaited promise of genomics found its way to the front lines of health care.
One sentence buried more than 1,500 pages into a fiscal 2020 spending bill the U.S. Senate passed Thursday could open the door to a broader range of insulin biosimilars. The provision, requested by the FDA, expands the definition of a “biological product” to include chemically synthesized polypeptides. The provision, requested by the FDA, expands the definition of a “biological product” to include chemically synthesized polypeptides.
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