Less than two months after counterfeit Avastin, a cancer drug made by the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche, was found on the US market, another fake version has turned up, health authorities said Wednesday.
Swiss pharmaceuticals giant Roche announced on Wednesday it had launched a takeover bid for Illumina, after the US company specialising in life sciences rebuffed an offer.
(Reuters) - Health insurer Blue Shield of California has decided not to pay for Roche Holding's drug Avastin to treat breast cancer after health advisers said it was not safe or clinically beneficial.
