Lilly's co-promotion with Boehringer Ingelheim of duloxetine is the first time the American company has signed a major marketing deal for one of its own products. The company notes the collaboration is part of its broad commitment to partnering and that the market is intensely competitive. But the choice of duloxetine--the launch of which may be delayed indefinitely because of manufacturing problems--also represents Lilly's lowest-risk option for subsidizing the launches, and maximizing the returns from, potentially eight new products over the next few years.

Just five weeks before the US election, a Medtech Insight analysis shows medical device companies are spending more on Democrat Joe Biden’s campaign than on Republican Donald Trump’s.

Denmark’s Orphazyme has raised more funds to market its lead product, the heat shock protein amplifier, arimoclomol, in the US and Europe, and to evaluate the compound for other lysosomal storage and neurodegenerative disorders.