January 19, 2017
Anavex secures cash to study Anavex 2-73 for Rett syndrome
Anavex has ensured most of the cash for a U.S. multicentre Phase 2 clinical trial of Rett syndrome treatment Anavex2-73.
Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Life Sciences
Category: North America
January 18, 2017
FDA warns Horizon Pharmaceuticals about drug products contamination
Horizon Pharmaceuticals has warned by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to better respond on resolving certain issues it had in its drug manufacturing facilities, that the FDA pointed out after an inspection in 2015.
January 18, 2017
Moberg Pharma expands New Skin retail presence
Moberg Pharma’s New Skin Spray SKU will be sold in 3,900 Walmart stores and in over 1,500 Walgreens stores.
January 18, 2017
FDA OK’s Hikma’s US subsidiary’s narcolepsy drug
Hikma Pharmaceuticals’s US subsidiary Roxane Laboratories has received an approval from the US Food and Drug Administration for its Sodium…
January 17, 2017
Biogen settles to pay Danish Forward $1.25 bilion
Danish biopharmaceutical company, Forward Pharma, has entered a deal with Biogen and certain other parties, regarding a Settlement and License Agreement.
January 17, 2017
Allergan, Gedeon Richter report positive results from uterine fibroids drug trial
Allergan and Gedeon Richter have reported positive results from Venus II, the second of two pivotal phase III clinical trials…
January 13, 2017
Pharma company executives debate drug pricing increases
The pharmaceutical industry is typically reluctant to talk about U.S. drug prices, generally the highest in the world due to a combination of market fragmentation and free market policies. But recent high-profile price hikes by Mylan NV, Turing Pharmaceuticals and Valeant Pharmaceuticals International have raised the ire of consumers and lawmakers.
January 13, 2017
Eli Lilly v. Teva Parenteral Medicines over vitamin regimen patent for Alimta
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has upheld the district court’s decision and ruled in the Eli Lilly’s favor regarding validity and infringement of the vitamin regimen patent for Alimta (pemetrexed for injection).
January 12, 2017
Trump says “pharma getting away with murder,” stocks slide
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday said pharmaceutical companies are “getting away with murder” in what they charge the government for medicines, and promised that would change, sending drugs stocks sharply lower.
January 12, 2017
FDA warns about cancer drug
The Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to purchase or use PNC-27, a product promoted and sold through http://PNC27.com,…