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An inconsistent boom-and-bust cycle funding environment for early-stage biotech innovations and burdensome regulation threaten the U.S.’s half-century-long dominance in the biotech sector.
Acadia Pharma’s Catherine Owen Adams is one of the founders of a group of small- to mid-cap biotechs advocating against a ‘peanut butter blanket’ approach to drug pricing for small companies.
Former European Trade Commissioner Phil Hogan and former U.S. Senator Richard Burr, speaking on a panel at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, pushed to see a larger picture beyond the Trump administration’s year of chaos and confusion.
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For the second time in less than one year, Akari Therapeutics is without a chief executive officer. David Horn Solomon abruptly resigned after being caught using the company credit card for personal purposes.
Today the president is expected to propose what could be sweeping reforms to help lower the cost of those medications for consumers.
Jazz Pharmaceuticals set aside $57 million in the first quarter of 2018 to settle an investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts regarding its support of 501(c)(3) organizations that provide financial assistance to Medicare patients.
You know when an analyst starts an article with, “Gilead’s Q1 financial results were a disaster,” that it requires a closer look.
Europe began approving biosimilars in 2006. The U.S. has lagged behind, only starting to approve these copycat drugs in 2015. However, of the nine biosimilars approved in the U.S., only three are actually on the market because of barriers thrown up by the biopharma industry.
As the Brexit deadline looms closer and closer there are numerous critical questions as to how the move will impact the landscape of pharmaceutical industries across the U.K., Europe and potentially the United States.
Gilead Sciences is facing another round of lawsuits regarding its HIV treatments. This morning the AIDS Healthcare Foundation announced two sets of California-based patients filed a personal injury lawsuit against the Bay Area company regarding safety concerns surrounding its TDF treatment.
Sitting before a Congressional panel Tuesday the heads of pharmaceutical distributing companies said their mea culpas over not doing more to limit the flow of prescription opioids to certain parts of the country.
Valeant Pharmaceuticals will change its name to Bausch Health Companies Inc. in July of this year. The company will rebrand itself with the highly recognizable name of its subsidiary eye-care company Bausch + Lomb.
Barring yet another headline-leading scandal, confrontational tweet or TV talk-show rant, Trump is expected to offer a speech on his administration’s policies toward drug pricing this week.