Pharmaceuticals
Pfizer to acquire cancer drug maker Array Biopharma for $10.6 bn
18 Jun 2019
Array’s Braftovi and Mektovi, launched last July for the deadliest form of skin cancer at a price of $22,000 per month, had sales of around $72 million over their first nine months, besides revenue from royalty and licensing deals
CCI approves GSK-Pfizer consumer healthcare JV
24 May 2019
And now, formaldehyde found in J&J’s baby shampoo
01 Apr 2019
Johnson & Johnson is facing regulatory scrutiny over most of its products, including its baby care products, over health concerns
NITI Aayog delegated NPPA role of drug price regulation
24 Jan 2019
A NITI Aayog-led body will now recommend prices to the NPPA on drugs and other health products, which relegates NPPA to a mere implementing body
Pfizer to shutter two more plants in India
09 Jan 2019
Eli Lilly to acquire Loxo Oncology for $8 bn in cash
09 Jan 2019
Loxo’s oncology drug Vitrakvi, priced at $32,800 per month, and experimental follow-up drug LOXO-195, on which Bayer is also a partner, together could generate annual sales of about $750 million
Bristol-Myers to acquire Celgene in $74-bn cash-and-stock deal
03 Jan 2019
Celgene shareholders will receive one Bristol-Myers Squibb share and $50 in cash for each share held, or $102.43 per share, a premium of 53.7 per cent to Celgene’s Wednesday close, besides one tradable contingent value right for each share held
J&J told to stop using its baby powder raw material in India
21 Dec 2018
Reports quoting an unnamed senior CDSCO official said on Thursday that Johnson & Johnson has been served with a written order to stop using the "huge quantities" of raw materials stocked in its plants in India
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