Eli Lilly & Co. will continue to "vigorously defend" its Alimta (pemetrexed disodium) patents in the UK, France, Italy and Spain, it said, following a UK High Court ruling last week that will allow competitor Actavis to market a generic version of the cancer drug.

In addition to agreeing to emergency use of the Oxford University/Astra Zeneca and Sinovac vaccines, Brazil's medicines regulator has also published good manufacturing practices certificates for Pfizer and Janssen vaccine. It has questions about the Sputnik V authorization request.

A Dutch parallel registration and reimbursement pilot has brought benefits including more participation from healthcare professionals, and also forces company divisions to be less streamlined.