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Pfizer faces first 2017 patent loss as Pristiq generics arrive Pfizer faces a challenging year on the patent loss front, starting with the generics of its antidepressant Pristiq now hitting the market. Mylan today said it had launched its copycat of desvenlafaxine extended-release tablets, in 50 mg and 100 mg doses....

Colony Stimulating Factor 1 Receptor (CSF1R) is a cell-surface protein encoded, in humans, by the CSF1R gene. CSF1R is also known as macrophage colony-stimulating factor receptor (M-CSFR), and CD115 (Cluster of Differentiation 115), and is encoded by CSF1R gene which controls the production, differentiation, and fun...

USFDA warns Bengaluru-based Resonance Labs of manufacturing norms violations US health regulator USFDA has red-flagged significant deviations from manufacturing norms at the Bengaluru-based API facility of Resonance Laboratories, including failure to have adequate cleaning procedures to prevent contamination of prod...

U.K. weighs drug rationing as NHS England's budget tightens: report Patients in the U.K. face yet another barrier to access as a tough budget situation has forced the country’s healthcare system to consider rationing costly drugs. Among them are medicines from Johnson & Johnson, Merck and Roche. Beginning in Apr...

The high cost of pharmaceuticals, especially Biologics, has been proven as an issue in the battle to control healthcare costs. The Biologics Price Competition and the Innovation Act has put forward the generic competition of Biologics or what is popularly called the Biosimilars. Biosimilars have been available in th...

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...

Efforts to develop antibodies that can ferry drugs into cancer cells and minimize damage to healthy tissue are gathering steam. The next generation of these ‘weaponized antibody’ therapies, called antibody–drug conjugates (ADCs), is working its way through clinical trials. The concept that underlies these drugs is s...

Branded product portfolio of Shionogi acquired by Lupin Pharma giant Lupin entered into a strategic agreement when its Japanese subsidiary Kyowa Pharmaceutical Industry Co. purchased the product portfolio of Japan’s Shionogi & Co., Ltd. The agreement results in acquisition of 21 products long-listed, and the dea...

Get informed about the Current Drugs in Pipeline with DelveInsight “'Ebola Viral Infections-Pipeline Insights, 2014′, Report About Virus Ebola virus disease (formerly known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever) is a severe, often fatal illness, with a case fatality rate of up to 90%. Ebola first appeared in 197...