A wide-ranging lawsuit has been filed in the US by 44 states, claiming price fixing for dozens of widely-used generic medicines. All told, 20 pharma companies are cited in the lawsuit, including Teva ...

The US government has announced the ten drugs selected for the first round of pricing negotiations under President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The IRA allows Medicare, the government health ...

The US health department has proposed three new models to help lower the cost of drugs, promote accessibility and improve quality of care for those enrolled in voluntary government health insurance ...

Ipsen’s cabozantinib has been recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) as an option for patients with previously treated advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

World Hepatitis Day takes place today, with this year’s theme, ‘I can’t wait’, highlighting the need to accelerate the fight against viral hepatitis to reach the 2030 elimination target.

German company Merck KGaA has signed an exclusive licence agreement with Swiss biopharma company Debiopharm for its late-stage oncology asset xevinapant. Xevinapant is a potentially first-in-class ...

As technology advances there is a growing array of MedTech solutions – wearables, voice-activated devices, telehealth, etc. – to better support patients in their daily lives. However, MedTech research ...

AstraZeneca (AZ) and Merck’s – known as MSD outside the US and Canada – Lynparza (olaparib) has been recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) as part of a ...

Gilead and EVOQ Therapeutics (EVOQ) have entered into a collaboration and licensing agreement aimed at advancing immunotherapies for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and lupus. Under the ...

A group of scientists from the University of Surrey have shared findings from a seven-year research study, revealing that a new approach could be on the horizon for treating one of the most prevalent ...

Merck & Co – known as MSD outside the US and Canada – and Moderna have announced positive phase 2b trial results investigating the use of their personalised mRNA cancer vaccine, mRNA-4157/V940, in ...

The Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee (ODAC) voted nine to four that Keytruda (pembrolizumab) should be approved for the treatment of certain patients with high-risk, non-muscle-invasive bladder ...