Payment settlements keep generics off the market
To offset generic drug competition, brand manufacturers are increasingly offering generic companies million-dollar payments to delay cheaper generic alternatives from reaching the market. In the latest settlement, Sanofi-Aventis and Bristol-Myers Squibb offered to pay Canadian generic drugmaker Apotex an estimated $40 million to drop its patent challenge and avoid a trial in exchange for delaying introduction of a generic version of the anti-clotting agent clopidogrel (Plavix) until 2011.
How Differences in Bispecific Therapies Impact Myeloma Treatment Operations
April 18th 2024According to Kirollos Hanna, PharmD, although similarities exist between bispecific therapies in the myeloma space, health care providers should take special note of practical differences and nuances associated with each when operationalizing them at their site of care.
