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Ministry of Health developed formularies of medical devices available through the government guarantees program. Ministry of Health committee made a decision to include 207 medical devices for implantation into human body. Three more medical devices will be available by prescription through the public social care program. Formularies…

Pfizer is acquiring two Baxter vaccines. The deal worth $635 mln will transfer rights as well as part of the factory in Austria where the vaccines are made. NeisVac-C helps protect against meningitis caused by group C meningococci. FSME-IMMUN/TicoVac is used to prevent tick-borne encephalitis. 120 million doses of the vaccine…

The cost to develop and win marketing approval for a new drug is $2.6 bn. This data was obtained in a study by the Tufts Center of Drug Development. Analysis derived information from clinical trials of 106 drugs tested in 1995–2007. Average out-of-pocket cost is $1,4 bn. Additional time costs (expected returns that investors forego…

Allergan will escape hostile acquisition by Valeant by agreeing to be bought by Actavis. Canadian Valeant and its partner and investor, hedge fund manager William Ackman, do not consider a price of $66 billion paid by Actavis to be a fair value for an American Botox producer Allergan and are forced to end their pursuit. The failed…

R-pharm is acquiring 51% of SIA International. After a recent death of the owner of SIA International Igor Rudinskiy his family is following through with the plan to sell 51% of shares to R-pharm group of companies. Rudinskiy’s family will continue to own 49% of shares, and SIA will keep most of its current management, but R-pharm…

EvaluatePharma^® published its 2014 Orphan Drug Analysis. The agency is forecasting orphan drug sales to grow from 90.16 bn USD in 2013 to 173.257 bn in 2020 (CAGR 2014 to 2020:+10%)/ The share of orphan drugs in sales of original drugs is predicted to reach 19.1% by 2020.
Bristol-Myers Squibb will…

Prix Galien Russia 2014 winners have been announced. Among international innovators, Pfizer was awarded the Best Biotech Product for its heptavalent conjugated pneumococcal vaccine Prevenar 13^® and AstraZeneca — for Brilinta^® (ticagrelor), an anti-antiplatelet superior to clopidogrel…

Fujifilm of Japan is about to boost production of a drug to treat Ebola fever. Wall Street Journal states that product in an equivalent of 20 thousand full course treatments as well as 300 thousand more worth of API will be produced. The aniviral drug Avigan…