A day after the revised NLEM was announced, a committee member told ET that it took several rounds of discussions to get the pharmaceutical stakeholders on board to include patented medicines in the NLEM list. This is the first time that patented medicines which otherwise get an exemption from price control have been included in the list. There are four patented drugs which have been added this time.
A global organization, MPP is aiming to increase access to lifesaving drugs through licenses. AbbVie said in a statement that the company “recognizes that the availability of a pan-genotypic HCV treatment will be critical to advancing HCV prioritization, access and elimination efforts globally.”
List of centrally authorised products requiring a notification of a change for update of annexes
Natco Pharma today said it has launched fixed dose combination of Sofosbuvir-Daclatasvir tablets for the treatment of Hepatitis C under the brand name Hepcinat Plus, in India.
Epclusa was just greenlighted by China’s Drug Administration (CDA). For hepatitis C patients in China, that means the first pangenotypic treatment will soon be available to them. But for Gilead, it might be too little, too late.
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.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company,a global biopharmaceutical company, announced that the China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) has approved a direct-acting antiviral regimen comprised of Daklinza (daclatasvir) and Sunvepra (asunaprevir), for the treatment of treatment-naive or -experienced patients, with or without compensated cirrhosis, infected with genotype 1b chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV).
The shares of the four drugmakers were up between 0.1 percent and 0.7 percent on Friday afternoon, roughly in line with the broader health index's 0.5 percent increase.
Mylan N.V. (NASDAQ, TASE: MYL) today announced that the company has signed an agreement with the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) to expand access to chronic hepatitis C medicines in developing countries. The agreement licenses Mylan to produce and market a generic version of Bristol-Myers Squibb's DAKLINZA™ (daclatasvir) Tablets, 30 mg and 60 mg, for distribution in 112 low and middle income countries.
Driven by several novel regimens recently receiving approval in the US and in Europe, high cure rates exceeding 90% are now achievable for most patients suffering from chronic hepatitis C. As a result of this unprecedented success, the industry is reaching a new phase in the fight against this deadly infectious disease. The pressure is now shifting to the healthcare providers to determine if the future of hepatitis C treatment will include a (near) eradication in the developed world, or if hepatitis C will remain a debilitating and life-threatening factor in our society.