Pharma has suffered another defeat in the state-by-state war over drug prices. On Tuesday, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown signed a bill that seeks to fight high costs and bring transparency to pharmaceutical pricing.
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 Illinois drugmaker’s star posted $2.88 billion in U.S. sales, growing by 23.5% and topping Street forecasts by $79 million. While foreign exchange impact kept international sales short of the mark, totaling $1.41 billion to consensus’ $1.46 billion, the U.S. performance was enough to keep Humira’s total $4.29 million tally above expectations of $4.26 billion.
Preliminary results TOPAZ-III study, recently presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases - AASLD ( Boston , November, 2016), showed that 12 weeks of treatment with Abbvie of medicament for HCV in 222 patients GT1, with chronic infection, eliminated the number of circulating viruses in 97% of patients with advanced liver fibrosis and in 96% of patients with compensated liver cirrhosis.
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.
AbbVie Receives FDA Approval Of Viekria XR For The Treatment Of Chronic
AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV), a global biopharmaceutical company, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for the use of VIEKIRA PAK® (ombitasvir, paritaprevir, and ritonavir tablets; dasabuvir tablets) without ribavirin (RBV) in patients with genotype 1b (GT1b) chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and compensated cirrhosis (Child-Pugh A). The application was previously granted priority review by the FDA, a designation given to investigational therapies that treat a serious condition and provide a significant improvement in safety or effectiveness.
Bausch + Lomb has announced its plans to further expand its Surgical Business product portfolio in India. The development is in line with the company's strategy to extend and strengthen its presence in the growing ophthalmology surgical devices and instruments market in the country.
AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV), a global research-based biopharmaceutical company, today announced that 34 abstracts from its chronic hepatitis C clinical development program have been accepted for presentation at The Liver Meeting®, the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) in San Francisco from November 13-17, further demonstrating AbbVie's strong leadership and ongoing commitment to patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection.
NHS England stumps up £190m for hep C therapy