It's not uncommon for drugmakers to raise prices to start the year or to start the second half of each year. Now, several drugmakers have hiked prices in early July.
Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Isentress HD, a new 1200 mg once-daily dose of the company’s integrase inhibitor, Isentress (raltegravir), to be administered orally as two 600 mg film-coated tablets with or without food, in combination with other antiretroviral agents, for the treatment of HIV-1 infection in adults, and paediatric patients weighing at least 40 kg, who are treatment-naïve or whose virus has been suppressed on an initial regimen of Isentress 400 mg given twice daily.
One analyst called Merck & Co.’s new product sales for the first quarter “uninspiring.” The same could be said of the entire Q1 report, with every gain for one product counterbalanced by losses for another.
Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, announced top-line results from the company’s phase 3 pivotal trial, ONCEMRK. ONCEMRK is evaluating an investigational once-daily formulation of Isentress (raltegravir), known as raltegravir 600 mg (to be given as 2 x 600 mg once-daily), for previously untreated HIV-1 infected adults.
GlaxoSmithKline ($GSK) doesn't have many groupies these days, what with sliding Advair sales and a growth strategy that, if successful, will deliver slow-but-steady increases rather than major leaps.
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