PERTH, Australia – Medicines Australia condemned a recent report that urged the Australian government to use international reference pricing for drugs reimbursed on the country's Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS).
PERTH, Australia – Medicines Australia condemned a recent report that urged the Australian government to use international reference pricing for drugs reimbursed on the country's Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS).
PERTH, Australia – More patients with Pompe disease in New Zealand will now have access to Sanofi Genzyme's enzyme replacement therapy Myozyme (alglucosidase alfa), but not because the country's single payer will pay for the drug. Rather, Sanofi Genzyme, of Cambridge, Mass., part of Sanofi SA, has stepped in to provide the therapy for free to patients in New Zealand.
PERTH, Australia – After signing a deal with Nantworks Inc. that expands its pipeline into oncology, Australian gene silencing company Benitec Biopharma Ltd. appears to be on the road to recovery after a few harrowing years that sent the stock into a nosedive.
PERTH, Australia – After announcing its plans for an IPO on Nasdaq, Aussie biotech Immuron Ltd. said it is ramping up its phase II program for its immunotherapy IMM-124E in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH).
PERTH, Australia – Australian regenerative medicine company Orthocell Ltd. got the validation it needed to move from being a small little-known Western Australian biotech company to move to the global stage via a research collaboration with Depuy Synthes Products for its Ortho-ATI stem cell technology for regenerating tendons and ligaments.
PERTH, Australia – Proposed recommendations to update Australia's intellectual property (IP) system would be disastrous to the biopharma industry and would put a stranglehold on innovation and investment, industry stakeholders said.
