The News: GlaxoSmithKline PLC‘s (London) Indian consumer health unit is drawing the attention of more big-name suitors as the magnitude of the potential there is coming into clearer focus. After… Read more »
The News: GlaxoSmithKline PLC’s (London) ViiV Healthcare unit now has results to support a two-drug monthly injection co-developed with Johnson & Johnson (New Brunswick NJ) as it pushes ahead with its ambition… Read more »
The News: For decades, patients in China have fought to gain access to cutting-edge medicines thanks to bureaucratic delays that have thwarted drug development. Now a sweeping government overhaul of… Read more »
The News: The US Food and Drug Administration on Monday (October 2, 2017) announced a series of measures designed to speed to market generic versions of complex drugs such as… Read more »
The News: Merck KGaA (Darmstadt DEU) put its consumer-health unit on the block Tuesday (September 5, 2017) in a move that will focus its healthcare activities on the riskier business… Read more »
The News: India has granted Pfizer Inc. (NYC) a patent for its powerful pneumonia vaccine Prevenar 13, in a blow to some health groups that said this would put the… Read more »
The News: It’s been a few years since the US government unveiled its Open Payments (OP) database, a collection of drug and device makers’ payments to healthcare providers. The data-collection… Read more »
The News: GlaxoSmithKline PLC is likely to escape generic competition to its blockbuster lung drug Advair in the US this year, after a second application for a cut-price equivalent form… Read more »
The News: The US Senate voted 57 to 42 on Tuesday (May 9, 2017) to confirm Scott Gottlieb, MD, as Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner. Gottlieb, who was nominated by… Read more »
The News: Pernix Therapeutics Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq:PTX) was one of the week’s top gainers, rocketing $2.02, or 50%, to $6.33 Monday (May 8, 2017)–without a press release being issued, or other… Read more »
