More than 20 drugs are the subject of multidistrict product liability litigation, but none of the pending cases approach the scope of past lawsuits against Merck’s Vioxx and Lilly’s Zyprexa. That may be one silver lining for Big Pharma as the blockbuster era draws to a close.
By Brenda Sandburg
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Two US FDA advisory committees will discuss results from epidemiological studies that attempted to quantify the prevalence, incidence and risk factors for misuse, abuse, overdose and death with opioid analgesics.
Manufacturers are engaging the European Commission and individual countries to allocate more health care spending to innovative medicines and align prices more closely to those in the US.
Finding ways to lower the rebates paid by the pharmaceutical industry to the UK government and fostering partnerships to make the UK a more attractive launch market could help reduce the number of terminated technology appraisals conducted by NICE, the health technology appraisal institute, says the UK pharmaceutical industry.
