Chinese authorities have acknowledged that supplies of Paxlovid are still insufficient to meet demand, even as Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said last week that thousands of courses of the treatment were shipped to the country last year and in the past couple of weeks millions more were shipped.
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Pfizer forecasted stable growth in the coming years, driven by a strong product push to cushion its non-COVID business and exclusivity losses, according to company chairman and Chief Executive Officer Albert Bourla, M.D., Monday.
Pfizer Inc. is not in talks with Chinese authorities to license a generic version of its COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid for use there, but is in discussions about a price for the branded product, Chief Executive Albert Bourla said on Monday.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away Pfizer Inc.’s bid to revive its plan to cover out-of-pocket expenses of Medicare patients for drugs costing $225,000 a year to treat a rare heart condition after federal officials found that the drugmaker’s arrangement could amount to illegal kickbacks.
The Omicron-adapted COVID-19 vaccine booster developed by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE sharply reduced hospitalizations among older patients, Israeli researchers said on Monday, in some of the first evidence of the jab’s real-world effectiveness.
China is in talks with Pfizer Inc. to secure a license that will allow domestic drugmakers to manufacture and distribute a generic version of the U.S. firm’s COVID-19 antiviral drug Paxlovid in China, three sources told Reuters.
Pfizer Inc. is exploring options for some early-stage treatments for rare diseases and cancer in a bid to focus on “high-impact” medicines and vaccines, the company said on Thursday.
Drugmakers including Pfizer Inc., GlaxoSmithKline PLC, Bristol Myers Squibb, AstraZeneca PLC, and Sanofi SA plan to raise prices in the United States on more than 350 unique drugs in early January, according to data analyzed by healthcare research firm 3 Axis Advisors.
U.S. drugmaker Pfizer Inc. said on Thursday its experimental gene therapy for the treatment of hemophilia B, a rare inherited blood disorder, met its main goal in a late-stage study.
India’s Hetero said on Tuesday that its generic version of Paxlovid, an antiviral treatment for COVID-19 developed by Pfizer Inc., was added to the World Health Organization’s prequalification list, which serves as a benchmark for procurement of medicines by developing countries.
