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At the end of 2016, there were an estimated 36.7 million people living with HIV across the globe. With a large and growing patient population, the market for HIV treatments is expected to grow to $22.5 billion by 2025.
Merck appears to be on the way to securing an additional approval for Keytruda, its blockbuster checkpoint inhibitor. The company is seeking new regulatory approval for Keytruda, an anti-PD-1 therapy, in combination with Eli Lilly’s Alimta and platinum chemotherapy as a first-line lung cancer treatment.
During the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the push for lower drug prices became one of the hot-button topics. Now there appears to be some efforts by advocacy groups and government entities to tackle the subject in several different ways.
Sometimes it feels like biotech’s successes and failures come in waves—even when it involves entirely unrelated clinical programs. This past month has had many in industry feeling like they’re underwater.
Industry watchers and investors have shown some concern that Merck is abandoning other potentially lucrative areas of research to focus on exploiting every last bit of Keytruda’s potential
Roche announced it had temporarily halted recruiting patients to its Phase II MODUL clinical trial for metastatic colorectal cancer after four patient deaths. The patients were receiving Tecentriq (atezolizumab) in combination with Exelixis’ MEK inhibitor Cotellic (cobimetinib).
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