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Japan withdraws recommendation of Merck and GSK HPV jabs
Japan takes a particularly reactive approach to vaccine adverse events. In 2011 Pfizer's Prevnar and Sanofi's ActHIB vaccines were both suspended following the deaths of four children. This week the spotlight is on GlaxoSmithKline and Merck.
Japan prepares to cover cancer-related breast implants
Japanese women can now get medical insurance coverage for breast implants following surgeries due to cancer. A panel from the country's Ministry of Health signed off on the change, Japan Daily Press reports.
Dr. Reddy's, Fujifilm pull plug on Japanese joint venture
After almost two years of discussions and dealmaking, Fujifilm and Dr. Reddy's Laboratories have called off their plot to team up on generics in Japan.
Japan launches public-private consortium to hunt for new drugs for infectious diseases
Japan has launched a new public-private partnership, dubbed the Global Health Innovative Technology Fund (GHIT), that brings together several Japanese pharmaceutical companies, nonprofit organizations and academic institutions to find new treatments for AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and other diseases that disproportionately affect the world's poor.
Amgen forges ahead in Japan with Astellas joint venture
Amgen has seemed sorely in need of an Asian expansion strategy as competitors put down eastern roots and seemed to pass it by. But with an agreement this morning with Astellas Pharma to establish a new joint venture in Japan, the world's biggest biotech showed it won't be left behind.
Sights set on Asia, Amgen sets up JV development deal with Astellas
Just a few months after Amgen execs lamented a big Asian gap in their global strategy, the Big Biotech company has joined hands with Astellas to set up a new joint venture in Japan. Amgen is contributing 5 experimental-stage programs to the JV, including their late-stage anti-PCSK9 program for the cholesterol drug AMG-145.
Japanese pharma giants launch $100M global R&D initiative
In a sharp reversal of its long neglect of diseases that afflict in the poor in the world's emerging markets, a slate of Japan's top pharma companies have joined a $100 million effort to tackle HIV, malaria, tuberculosis and tropical diseases.
J&J taps top blockbusters in the pipeline, lays out global R&D strategy
Johnson & Johnson built its R&D rep around blockbuster development deals. Now the pharma giant's drug development arm wants the world to know that there's a comprehensive, global pipeline strategy in play that will deliver more than 10 new product applications over the next 4 years. And new drug development efforts in China and Japan are growing to rival the work it does in the U.S. and Europe.
Astellas chops OSI, Perseid ops in global R&D restructuring
Tokyo-based Astellas Pharma is rolling out a major R&D restructuring effort, shuttering facilities at its OSI Pharmaceuticals and Perseid Therapeutics subsidiaries and cutting back its work at the Astellas Research Institute of America to focus solely on CNS diseases.
Astellas forecasts big sales growth as prostate drug catches hold
Japan's drugmakers aren't any more immune from generic competition than U.S. pharma companies are. Still the country's second- and third-largest drugmakers are predicting sales growth this year, even as low-cost copies drain away sales of their key products. New drugs are coming in to pick up the slack, the companies said.
