EFPIA laments 'unfortunate' WHO decision on Lucentis

The World Health Organization's "unprecedented" decision not to put Novartis's Lucentis on its essential medicines list (EML) for wet AMD, while retaining an unlicensed drug (Roche's Avastin) on the list, sends out a "very unfortunate signal" to industry and regulators, says Richard Bergström, director general of the European industry federation EFPIA.