The Russian government has expanded the list of vital and essential drugs from 699 to 735 items for 2019, according to recent statements by the press-service of Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, reports The Pharma Letter’s local correspondent.
The expanded list includes some drugs against orphan diseases, as well a number of antitumor drugs.
One of such drugs is lapatinib, produced by Swiss pharma giant Novartis (NOVN: DE). It is designed for the treatment of breast cancer and will be marketed under the Tyverb brand name in Russia, as it is in Europe while it is Tykerb in the USA.
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