The independent Medicare Commission that would be established by the Senate Finance Committee's health reform bill would be specifically authorized to recommend cuts in the Part D program to help control government spending

Celgene will get exclusive use of Quanticel's single-cell genomic analysis to tweak its clinical pipeline, and it also has exclusive options to acquire the venture-backed start-up.

With an unrestricted label and once-daily dosing, rivaroxaban will do battle with Boehringer-Ingelheim's dabigatran, which is dosed twice a day but can claim superior efficacy to warfarin in the atrial fibrillation population.