Health Care

Coming to America? Novartis subsidiary launches first biosimilar product in the US

Update - Wholesale cost of Zarxio will be 15% less than Amgen's Neupogen

Biosimilars land in the US as Sandoz launches Zarxio

By Dan Stanton

Sandoz has launched Zarxio, the first biosimilar in the US, despite a last ditch effort to block the copycat version of Neupogen by Amgen.

NJ Assembly committee approves biosimilar substitution bill

NJ Assembly committee approves biosimilar substitution bill

By Zachary Brennan

Under the bill first proposed in 2014, which won unanimous approval last week from a New Jersey Assembly committee, pharmacists would have to notify prescribers within five days of dispensing an interchangeable biosimilar.