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Country focus: China & APAC’s growing medical needs bring opportunities and challenges

pharmaphorum

At the same time, lots of people with experience at multinational pharmaceutical companies have chosen to return home. All these factors will support the growth of in-house R&D-driven pharmaceutical companies and bring more innovative drugs to Asian markets.”. Chemotherapy still accounted for 72.6%

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Top 20 Drugs with US Patent Expiry in 2023 Based on Total Sales Value

PharmaShots

Shots: Drug patent expiry is when a patent granted to a pharmaceutical company for a particular drug expires, allowing other companies to produce and sell generic versions Like every other utility patent, pharmaceuticals also get market exclusivity of 20 years.

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Beating the Big C

Pharmaceutical Technology

The world’s biggest pharmaceutical company Pfizer announced in June 2008 that it would be putting its “full scope and scale” behind a push into the cancer market. “Companies used to be universally protected by patents but there is a pathway to approval opening up for biosimilar legislation. .”