Under growing pressure, Lilly to cut price of popular insulins by 70%
The Indianapolis-based drugmaker also said it will expand a program that caps patient out-of-pocket costs at $35 or less a month.
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Panel backs moving opioid antidote Narcan over the counter
The potential move represents the latest government effort to increase use of a medication that has been a key tool in the battle against the U.S. overdose epidemic that kills more than 100,000 people annually.
Lilly receives FDA approval for rare blood cancer treatment
Jaypirca was approved to treat mantle cell lymphoma, or MCL. a rare blood cancer that starts in white blood cells in the lymph nodes for which there is no cure, according to Lilly. The disease affects about 1 in 200,000 people worldwide each year.
Feds reject Lilly’s fast-track application for Alzheimer’s drug
Donanemab’s ability to rapidly remove amyloid beta from patients’ brains prevented the required number of patients from receiving the drug for a full 12 months, Lilly said, resulting in the FDA rejection.
Northwind Pharma planning $10.5M expansion, 205 new hires
The Indianapolis company, located in the former St. Bernadette Catholic Church on the near-east side, plans to make the hires by the end of 2025.
California to sue Lilly, other drug companies over insulin prices
California on Thursday announced it will sue the companies that make and promote most of the nation’s insulin, accusing them of scheming to illegally increase the price of the drug.
Alzheimer’s drug that modestly slows disease OK’d by FDA
It’s the first drug that’s been convincingly shown to slow the decline in memory and thinking that define the disease. But the medication comes with downsides, including potentially serious side effects and the need for frequent drug infusions.
With stock trading near record high, Lilly embarks on ambitious 2023
The Indianapolis-based pharmaceutical company is preparing for one of its most ambitious years in memory for 2023, with plans to advance five new drugs into late-stage clinical studies and move four into regulatory review.
Indiana to receive $219M from CVS, Walgreens in opioid settlements
CVS and Walgreens have agreed to pay state and local governments a combined total of more than $10 billion to settle lawsuits over the toll of opioids.
Scathing report urges major changes at FDA, including possibly breaking up agency
The report comes in the wake of heavy criticism of the agency’s handling of a formula shortage earlier this year. Food safety experts have long complained that the agency’s food oversight arm has been chronically understaffed and underfunded.
Diabetes drug Lilly abandoned has new life
In an amazing resurrection, teplizumab, developed by another company after Lilly trials were a letdown, is one of the hottest new drugs on the market.
Opioid settlement cash to be in local hands within a week
Months after Indiana’s attorney general said he’d send about 660 local governments their shares of the state’s $507 million opioid crisis settlement with drug manufacturers and distributors, none have received the money.
Catalent laying off 400 employees in Bloomington
Since 2020, Catalent had been rapidly expanding operations as it produced vaccines for both Johnson & Johnson and Moderna Inc.
Inotiv plans to close two Indianapolis facilities in consolidation
The pharmaceutical testing company said it plans to close two isolator facilities in Indianapolis and consolidate them with existing facilities in the United States.
Drug slows Alzheimer’s, but can it make a real difference?
An experimental Alzheimer’s drug modestly slowed the brain disease’s inevitable worsening, researchers reported Tuesday—but it remains unclear whether that will have an impact on people’s lives.
Roche’s Alzheimer’s drug fails in fresh blow to fraught field
Gantenerumab’s demise is a boost for Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Biogen, which are also developing treatments for Alzheimer’s, said Tim Anderson, an analyst at Wolfe Research. Lilly shares were up 1.8% at midday.
MBX Biosciences closes on $115M in drug-development funding
The funding amount is one of the largest in recent years for an Indiana-based science startup.
Paxlovid may reduce long COVID risk for some patients, study finds
Even as vaccines have reduced the risk of hospitalization and death from infection with SARS-CoV-2, researchers continue to worry about the individual suffering and population-wide threats from long COVID.
Pfizer study says updated COVID boosters rev up protection
Pfizer said people 55 and older who got the omicron-targeting booster had four-fold higher antibody levels than those given an extra dose of the original vaccine.
U.S. agency softens opioid prescribing guidelines for doctors
The previous guidance succeeded in reducing inappropriate and dangerous prescribing, some experts say. But they also were seen as a barrier to care, with some pharmacists refusing to fill prescriptions as doctors wrote them.