Pharma business info

Andrew Lansley has been forced to offer up an added £185 million boost to assist the NHS fund legal battles because of growing numbers of carelessness claims.

Pain pills such as Percocet and Opana from Endo Pharmaceuticals may be in short supply after their fabrication plant was closed for production as well as quality concerns.

Ariad Pharmaceuticals’s scrip had its “outperform” ranking reaffirmed by research forecasters at Rodman & Renshaw in a report released on January 14.

Amag Pharmaceuticals stated that it anticipates its fourth quarter earnings to miss Street expectations, though it repeated its full year financial 2012 viewpoint.