The Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) has stayed the order issued by the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks revoking Novartis’ patent over lung cancer drug Ceritinib.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published guidance recommending the use of Pfizer's Lorviqua (lorlatinib) for a certain form of lung cancer on the NHS.
China is quickly approving many of the newest cancer drugs but it also is demanding big discounts if drugmakers want them on its national insurance coverage list. In fact, in the latest round of negotiations, drugmakers offered up discounts averaging 56.7% for medications that included blockbusters from Novartis, Pfizer and AstraZeneca.
The Institute is appraising the drug’s use to treat anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-positive advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in adults who have already had Pfizer’s Xalkori (crizotinib).
Pfizer’s targeted therapy Xalkori is about to get even more competition in previously untreated ALK-positive lung cancer. And if new data are any indication, it’s pretty stiff.
After Bristol-Myers Squibb won the first immuno-oncology nod in China for its PD-1 star Opdivo in June, all parties were holding their breath for its price tag. After all, it would set a bar for other I-O therapies on their way to the key market.
Pfizer files third-gen ALK inhibitor for lung cancer
Final guidelines have now been published endorsing NHS use of Novartis’ Zykadia as a first line of attack for anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), offering patients a new treatment option.
Patna police and the state drug control administration under the health department seized fake medicines worth lakhs of rupees at Machhuatoli under the jurisdiction of Kadamkuan police station on Friday.
The report, produced by Beijing-based data provider PharmCube, highlights 16 products Chinese regulators are expected to green light in 2018. Over half of them involve an overseas player in biopharma.