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In another blow to Genentech’s blockbuster cancer drug Herceptin, a federal appeals court upheld the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeals Board’s invalidation of two patents it holds on the drug. Read More
Mylan said it will waive its exclusive U.S. distribution rights for its copycat of AbbVie’s HIV antiviral Kaletra (lopinavir/ritonavir) to allow other suppliers to manufacture the potential COVID-19 treatment. Read More
President Trump signed a stimulus measure Friday that would help prevent drug shortages and change how the FDA deals with over-the-counter drugs. Read More
The FDA said it won’t object to outsourcing facilities using hydroxychloroquine sulfate or chloroquine phosphate for compounding during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More
China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has banned the importation, sale and use of Bristol-Myers Squibb’s cancer blockbuster Abraxane (nanoparticle albumin-bound paclitaxel) following an inspection in the U.S. Read More
The Canadian government has passed a law that temporarily speeds up its process for overriding drug patents, to ensure accessibility to medically necessary products during the coronavirus pandemic. Read More
The FDA has said it will allow convalescent plasma to be used as an emergency treatment for patients with serious or immediately-life threatening COVID-19. Read More
India has banned almost all exports of hydroxychloroquine to protect the nation’s domestic supply of the malaria drug considered a possible treatment for COVID-19. Read More
A New York federal judge has dismissed a whistleblower suit alleging that Novartis paid physicians kickbacks to prescribe its multiple-sclerosis drug Gilenya. Read More