Look back at pharma news to May 5

7 May 2017

By Barbara Obstoj-Cardwell. Editor

The big political news last week was that US President Donald Trump finally got the House of Representatives to pass new legislation to repeal and replace The Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. Also hitting the headlines were Lundbeck and Otsuka’s Rexulti, AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi, a Sosei acquisition, Novartis deal with Celyad, Poxel’s diabetes ambitions and Novo Nordisk results.

The House narrowly passed legislation, the American Health Care Act, in a 217-213 vote, fulfilling a years-long pledge and sending the bill to the Senate. However, according to TheHill, Senate Republicans are signaling they are in no hurry to move legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare after it passed the House Thursday. The House GOP bill is expected to have to undergo significant changes in the upper chamber to meet budgetary rules that would allow it to block a Democratic filibuster.

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