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Janssen Pharmaceuticals’ psoriatic arthritis biologic Stelara is not a cost-effective option for adults who have not responded well to non-biological drugs used to slow down disease progression, say British health-payment authorities. Read More
Drugmakers who redact commercially confidential information from clinical study reports in Europe will have to justify their actions, says a spokesman for the European Medicines Agency, explaining what categories of confidential information the redacted data fall under. Read More
The FDA now has the power to stop any pharmaceutical import it suspects could be adulterated or misbranded, according to a final rule that implements the agency’s new import authority. Read More
Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) will spend $650 million to settle approximately 4,000 state and federal lawsuits alleging the drugmaker didn’t do enough to warn patients about the hazards of its blockbuster blood thinner Pradaxa. Read More
The FDA wants to know what effect distractions such as moving visuals and music may have on patients’ retention of risk information in direct-to-consumer drug advertisements. Read More
GlaxoSmithKline is facing another bribery probe, this time from a UK watchdog that plans to investigate the drugmaker’s business practices around the world. Read More
Drugmakers should evaluate potential names for new drugs and weed out candidates that include elements such as medical abbreviations, inactive ingredients and partial lists of active ingredients, the FDA says. Read More