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Actavis’s planned acquisition of Allergan could close as early as today after the European Commission signed off on the $66 billion purchase. Read More
Takeda’s monoclonal antibody Entyvio got a tentative green light from the UK’s health cost watchdog as a treatment for severe colitis, paving the way for a final consultation and adoption by the National Health Service. Read More
India’s patent office sided with a challenge from generics maker Cipla and struck down a patent protecting Boehringer Ingleheim’s blockbuster COPD drug Spiriva. Read More
A federal appeals court has extended an injunction barring four companies from marketing generic versions of AstraZeneca’s blockbuster inhaled asthma drug Pulmicort Respules while it hears an appeal of a lower court ruling that invalidated the brandmaker’s patent on the drug. Read More
The FDA needs to work with devicemakers and Congress to understand why clinical development takes longer here than in other countries and then implement changes to speed up the process, a new study concludes. Read More
A German regulator says European Medicines Agency plans for implementing its clinical trials database let drugmakers withhold too much information, such as study protocols, methods and trial results, under the exemption for commercially confidential information. Read More
A federal judge has ordered Reckitt Benckiser to release documents the company wanted to suppress in an ongoing FTC probe into allegations the company illegally delayed generic competition to its opioid-dependence treatment Suboxone. Read More
With the FDA beginning to approve biosimilars, the next major hurdle for the emerging sector will be in the courts, where brandmakers and would-be competitors are arguing over how they will approach patent infringement lawsuits, especially when it comes to sensitive manufacturing data. Read More