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Roche CEO Severin Schwan to stand down after 14 years

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The appointment might raise some eyebrows given Roche’s need to drive pharma sales as it copes with the loss of patent protection on an earlier generation of antibody-based therapies – now being hit by biosimilar competition – but Schwan is confident Schinecker is the right man to lead the company forward.

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A glance back to Pharma Integrates, London 2022 – part ii

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GIRFT and competition He went on: “Improvement needs competition – everything else is a proxy; it doesn’t work well. When Milburn and Blair introduced competition in 2004-2008 it did start to make a difference.” Since 2008, the budget for NHS has grown 1% and the market 4%. Highly unlikely.”

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Astellas loses bid to block Lexiscan generics in US

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In an update on the litigation posted this morning, Astellas confirmed that the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) had upheld a lower court ruling that Hospira’s generic does not infringe any of the patents that are protecting Lexiscan (regadenoson injection) from competition.

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Teva asks SCOTUS to overturn “skinny label” verdict on GSK drug

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Things became litigious in 2017, when a Delaware court found that Teva’s label for its generic encouraged doctors to use the drug to treat heart failure in a way that infringed GSK’s RE40,000 patent, which was reissued by the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) in 2008.

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This U.S. Paralympian Built a Prosthetics Business – Now His Competitors Are Customers, Too

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After the accident in 2008, Schultz was anxious to get back into sports, but struggled to find prosthetics to support extreme movement. Tuning the equipment, even the smallest bit, is crucial when fractions of second matter in competition. Turning data into insights: how activity data replaces trial and error. Learn more.

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Amarin Makes Moves towards Global Expansion of Vazkepa

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AstraZeneca ’s cholesterol drug Crestor (rosuvastatin) was approved in 2003 in the US but only approved in Germany in 2008. The company now faces a highly competitive generics market for its lead drug. Amarin’s net product revenue was $577.9 million in 2021 and $607 million in 2020, as per its financial filings.