EFPIA laments 'unfortunate' WHO decision on Lucentis
This article was originally published in SRA
Executive Summary
The World Health Organization's "unprecedented" decision not to put Novartis's Lucentis on its essential medicines list (EML) for wet AMD, while retaining an unlicensed drug (Roche's Avastin) on the list, sends out a "very unfortunate signal" to industry and regulators, says Richard Bergström, director general of the European industry federation EFPIA.
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