Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Life Sciences
The Texas AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) Advisory Committee has added Daraprim to its formulary, making the medicine more accessible and affordable to AIDS patients across the state.
A privately-held biopharmaceutical company Turing Pharmaceuticals said Monday that Daraprim will be sold to the program for $1.00 per 100-count bottle.
European Commission has approved Switzerland-based Novartis’ Entresto tablets for treating adult patients with symptomatic chronic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction.
Nearly 50 percent of Medicaid patients infected with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) whose doctors had prescribed newer, life-saving antiviral drugs were denied coverage to the therapies because they were not considered “a medical necessity.”
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Bristol-Myers Squibb-marketed Opdivo (nivolumab) to treat patients with advanced form of kidney cancer.
Pfizer and Allergan have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Pfizer will combine with Allergan in a transaction valued at about $160 billion.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals, a biotechnology company has appointed Pfizer’s Senior Vice president Michael J. Parini to the role of Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer.
Diplomat Pharmacy reported on Monday that it is a member of a limited panel of specialty pharmacies selected to distribute Ninlaro as a treatment for patients with relapsed and/or refractory multiple myeloma.
Aurobindo Pharma Limited has received final approval from the US Food & Drug Administration (USFDA) to manufacture and market Sildenafil…
A medical device company Akers Biosciences has appointed John J. Gormally as Chief Executive Officer from the global medical technology company Becton Dickinson
The European Commission (EC) has approved Novartis’ Cosentyx (secukinumab) for the treatment of people living with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA). For AS.