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To suggest that the pharma industry is a reluctant partner in President Donald Trump’s attempts to decrease drug prices is to overstate the fact. But now the industry appears to be pushing back, at least a little bit.
Merck’s blockbuster anti-PD-1 therapy Keytruda has snagged another regulatory approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The checkpoint inhibitor has been approved, in combination with chemotherapy, as a first-line treatment for patients with metastatic squamous non-small cell lung cancer.
As we end October and head into November, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) continues its work. This upcoming week has several PDUFA action dates for drug applications. Here’s a look.
Following several clinical disappointments and declining stock prices over the past year, Celgene tapped Alise Reicin as its new head of the company’s global clinical development unit, with a focus on mid- to late-stage therapeutics.
Mesothelioma is a rare cancer that develops in the lining of the lungs, abdomen, or cardiovascular cavity. A 2017 study reported that the number of people affected by this rare cancer is between 2,400 - 2,800 individuals per year in the United States alone.
AstraZeneca and Merck & Co. presented results at the Presidential Symposium at the European Society for Medical Oncology 2018 Congress held in Munich Germany describing its Phase III SOLO-1 trial of Lynparza (olaparib) in ovarian cancer.
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