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Bret Jackson, president of the Economic Alliance for Michigan, notes that Ford Motor is a biosimilar success story, having saved a significant amount of money on just a handful of drugs.

Wayne Winegarden, PhD, a senior fellow in business and economics at Pacific Research Institute, shared his thoughts on which coverage type he expects will have the most robust biosimilar savings: Medicare, commercial, or military.

Ford Motor saved $5 million by switching patients to 5 biosimilars, and other manufacturers and employers in Michigan have achieved good results with switching programs, the Economic Alliance of Michigan reports.

As chief science policy officer for Global Healthy Living Foundation, Robert Popovian, PharmD, MS, has a bird’s-eye view of some of the central issues of biosimilar access in the United States.

In a recent paper, Sarfaraz K. Niazi, PhD summarizes some of his central ideas on the relevance of FDA biosimilar testing standards.

The companies hope to gain FDA approval for a high-concentration, citrate-free version of Hadlima, an adalimumab biosimilar that was approved in a lower concentration in July 2019.

Patients with stage IV nonsquamous non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) demonstrated equivalent outcomes when treated with MYL-1402O or Avastin.

Wayne Winegarden, PhD, a senior fellow in business and economics at Pacific Research Institute, explains pricing issues for reference drugs and biosimilars.

The Center for Biosimilars® spoke recently with Chad Landmon, chair of the Intellectual Property and Food and Drug Administration Practice Groups at Axinn, a New York–based antitrust, intellectual property, and litigation law firm.

Wayne Winegarden, PhD, discusses his savings analysis for adalimumab and etanercept biosimilars and their potential market share.

In Canada, a new jurisdiction inaugurates mandatory switching to biosimilars.

Investigators said pathologic complete response (pCR) improved in a trastuzumab biosimilar/pertuzumab trial when patients were preselected for a subtype of breast cancer.

An economist weighs in on whether interchangeable status will help adalimumab biosimilars succeed.

Investigators said more evidence would help to convince clinicians of the safety of switching between biosimilar products.

Xbrane Biopharma of Stockholm, Sweden, said its next biosimilar candidates will target the demand for oncology and hematology therapeutics.

In metastatic breast cancer (mBC) resistant to multiple lines, Herzuma (a trastuzumab biosimilar) plus gedatolisib, an mTOR/PI3K signaling pathway inhibitor, demonstrated value.

Etanercept and adalimumab biosimilar competition is not only necessary to drive down prices, it’s long overdue, according to Wayne Winegarden, PhD, a senior fellow in business and economics at Pacific Research Institute.

Tot Biopharm receives China regulatory approval for a bevacizumab biosimilar and Fujifilm moves forward with plans for a Suzhou Innovation and Collaboration Center.

The trial included "drifted" (nonstandard) reference product, forcing a stratified analysis to yield relevant data.

Ahead of sales and revenues, Icelandic company Alvotech lines up a massive capital investment and an initial public offering (IPO).

The arrival of biosimilars for filgrastim and pegfiltrastim coincided with higher use of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) for prophylaxis against febrile neutropenia, but many high-risk patients still do not receive the treatment.

In a review, Sandoz researchers discuss lingering barriers that prevent insulin prices from falling to more affordable levels.

Henlius gains approval in China for Hanbeitai and officials discuss combination therapy options with experimental therapy serplulimab and ophthalmology treatment.

Steven Yates, MD, an oncologist and medical director at Intermountain Healthcare, discusses problems underlying the 340B Drug Pricing Program.

Researchers report findings that suggest a different reimbursement system for Medicare Part B biologics could lead to significantly more robust savings.

In the second setback this year for etanercept biosimilars, the US District Court for the District of New Jersey has ordered Samsung Bioepis to delay marketing Eticovo until 2029.

Specialty tiers for biosimilars and reforms that address the proliferation of poor-quality patents would help lower costs and improve access, biosimilar industry veterans said.

Authors of a new study estimated significant savings from biosimilars in Ontario based on deep price discounts and mandatory switching programs.

Authors of a review discuss barriers to insulin access and potential solutions as the 100-year anniversary of the drug's first use for diabetes gets closer.

The utilization rates for biosimilars in community oncology have been much higher than for other disease categories and are only expected to rise, says Steven Yates, MD.