Bayer appeals against 'unlawful' bevacizumab ruling

28 September 2018

A week after a UK court judged that bevacizumab injections could be prescribed for the treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD), German life sciences group Bayer (BAYN: DE) has appealed against the decision.

The High Court ruled that bevacizumab, which is a cancer drug marketed by the Swiss pharma major Roche (ROG: SIX) under the brand name Avastin, could be offered to patients in the ophthalmology indication because it is much cheaper than the approved eye care treatments, Lucentis (ranibizumab), from Novartis (NOVN: VX), and Bayer and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals’ (Nasdaq: REGN) Eylea (aflibercept).

"This has the potential to set a worrying precedent"

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