David Denton will join Pfizer from the hardware store chain Lowe's, though he does have prior health care experience working at CVS Health.

Start-up firm, with two Chinese-developed drugs for lung cancer in late-stage development, may be particularly vulnerable to the US Food and Drug Administration’s recently stated opposition to the Chinese-only research supporting Eli Lilly’s sintilimab.

After motion to advance fails at 17 February meeting, proposed study design will be revamped, not scrapped. Despite the 2-2 deadlock on the vote, commissioners uniformly expressed an interest in proceeding with research on PBM industry, focusing on the leading players.

New York jury finds that Teva and distributor Anda violated state’s public nuisance law in their marketing and distribution of opioids. Such claims had been rejected by two previous courts and the verdict in this case shows the challenges companies face in ongoing litigation.