Korea Now Reimburses BeOne’s Tevimbra First-Line in Three Cancers, Using PD-L1 Cutoffs to Set the Limits
One reimbursement decision moved a second-line PD-1 into first line across three common cancers, inside biomarker limits.
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Sanofi Pays Regeneron $1 Billion to Keep Dupixent’s Successors Inside a 23-Year Alliance
Sanofi is paying to keep Dupixent’s next generation in the partnership, and the deal also closes a lawsuit between them.
Medicare Advantage Premiums Fall 16.5% for 2027 While Part D Deductibles Rise 30%
The premium headline is real, but part of the cost has moved from the monthly bill to the point of care.
Sweden Subsidised Phesgo in Both Early and Metastatic Breast Cancer as Pertuzumab Biosimilars Approach
A general subsidy in both settings is a clean result for Roche’s subcutaneous strategy, landing before pertuzumab biosimilars.
EU Pharma Package Sets Nine Years’ Default Protection and Rewards Comparative Trials With a Tenth
The default gets shorter, and the route back to the maximum runs through comparative trials and filing early in Europe.
Retatrutide Cuts Weight 20.8% in Type 2 Diabetes, and Lilly Plans to File It as a Biologic
The efficacy is the headline. The filing route and a sensory side effect are the details that will shape the label.
Indonesia Is Injecting $1.1 Billion Into BPJS Kesehatan as 52 Million Members Lapse on Premiums
The injection keeps hospital claims paid for two months. It does not change the arithmetic that created the gap.
Qatar Became Foundayo’s Sixth Market as Lilly Claimed an Edge Over Oral Semaglutide 25 mg
Approvals market by market, and data built to shape the comparison with a Novo dose that has not launched.
IQWiG and LSE Authors Say EU Joint Clinical Assessments Could Become a Basis for US Price Talks
A debate about who sets the evidence bar, landing the same week Germany’s health ministry proposed lowering it.
The plan lowers the evidence bar at launch and moves the proof to later real-world data, where insurers doubt it exists.
The plan lowers the evidence bar at launch and moves the proof to later real-world data, where insurers doubt it exists.