pharma news

Dec 21, 2016

For Inflectra launch, Pfizer uses 'hybrid model' to home in on HCPs Pfizer hit the market with Inflectra, a biosimilar of Johnson & Johnson's Remicade. And with the launch came not only the beginning of a new class of copycats, but a new way to go to market. Each biosimilar, even versions of the same biologic—wh...

Dec 06, 2016

Glaxo replaces ViiV Healthcare chief as executive shuffle continues The executive exodus at GlaxoSmithKline is continuing—and so is the rise of women to the company’s top ranks. The British pharma giant announced that Dominique Limet, head of HIV unit ViiV Healthcare, would step down at the end of March 2017—the sam...

Nov 08, 2016

Fresenius Kabi introduced Bivalirudin for Injection Fresenius Kabi announced that it has introduced Bivalirudin for Injection in the United States, which is an anticoagulant, and a generic alternative to Angiomax. Fresenius Kabi’s Bivalirudin was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in October. The U.S....