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IMS Health Top 20 pharmaceutical companies 2009

Home/Pharma News | Posted 23/04/2010

The 2009 list of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies, ranked by IMS Health according to global prescription drug sales for the 12 months up to September 2009, shows that Teva, Novo Nordisk and Boehringer Ingelheim scored better in percent change than Big Pharma in those months.

IMS Health, BCC: Generics sales continue to climb

Home/Pharma News | Posted 12/03/2010

Over the 12 months that ended September 2009, global sales of generics grew by 7.7%, up from 3.6 % the year before, IMS Health reported. This compares with the 5.7% growth seen within the overall global pharmaceutical universe in 2009.

Global generics: time for consolidation and expansion

Home/Pharma News | Posted 12/03/2010

The global generic drug industry has witnessed an almost decade-long sales euphoria. Volumes and sales growth of prescription generic drugs continued to increase in 2009. At the same time, large companies are consolidating their operations in established markets and/or expanding into emerging ones through local acquisitions or partnerships.

After generics slow down in 2013: into biosimilars

Home/Pharma News | Posted 12/03/2010

Large pharmaceutical companies are consolidating their generics operations in established markets and/or expanding into emerging ones through local acquisitions or partnerships, writes Ms Doris de Guzman on ICIS website of 10 February 2010.

Originator/generic competition: who's the 'bad guy'?

Home/Pharma News | Posted 26/02/2010

As reported in Scrip News on 28 January 2010 by Xavier Buffet Delmas and Laura Morelli of Hogan & Hartson MNP, Paris, intellectual property rights are key elements of the fierce competition between originator and generics companies. Patents are central because it is only when patents elapse that generic products can enter the market. This is when competition in the market begins. Trademarks, trade dress and other marketing tools then come into play. The authors explain some interesting recent legal developments linked to this battle.

Indian Ranbaxy buys Biovel to strengthen in vaccines and follow-on biologics

Home/Pharma News | Posted 12/02/2010

Ranbaxy Laboratories in India (now part of Daiichi Sankyo) has strengthened its vaccine and biologicals manufacturing capabilities by acquiring India-based Biovel Lifesciences.

Pharmalot: Are pay-for-delay deals good or bad?

Home/Pharma News | Posted 11/02/2010

On 13 January 2010, the Federal Trade Commissioner (FTC) Jon Leibowitz held a press conference to deride the ongoing practice in which brand-name drugmakers offer cash or some other inducement to their generic rivals, which, in turn, agree to delay the marketing of lower-cost copycat medicines.

PhRMA threatens to withdraw US healthcare reform support

Home/Pharma News | Posted 10/02/2010

As reported by PharmaTimes on 18 January 2010, US research-based drugmakers have threatened to withdraw their support for US President Barack Obama’s healthcare reforms unless biological drugs receive 12 years’ guaranteed protection from generic competition.

Innovative biologicals development must be preserved

Home/Pharma News | Posted 26/01/2010

As reported by Gene Quinn on IPWatchdog.com, for many months we have been hearing about the US government attempts to “reform” health care in the United States, and in the first weekend of December 2009 the US Senate was actually working, as the contentious debate continues. Even a relatively rare Presidential visit to Capitol Hill was scheduled for the afternoon of 6 December 2009, presumably so President Obama can rally the troops for whatever lies ahead. While patent policy has not taken centre stage in these debates, it is hard to ignore the under current that rages through the debates. Health care costs too much, so costs need to be contained. Of course, market initiatives like a national heath insurance market, which would lower premiums for everyone overnight, are not being considered.

Pfizer plans to launch biosimilars of Top 10–15 biologicals

Home/Pharma News | Posted 22/01/2010

Pfizer, which became the biggest drugmaker selling widely prescribed pills such as the Lipitor heart medicine, is preparing to enter the business of making cheaper copies of pricey, injectable drugs from biotechnology.