A recovery in the US, aided by abating pricing pressure and portfolio exits by some large players, augurs well for Indian firm Lupin, but impending new launches including levothyroxine will need to deliver to sustain US momentum.

Indian industry veteran and secretary general of the Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance, Dilip Shah, has died aged 77. Shah, a former commercial director of Pfizer in India, played a pivotal role in ensuring that the Indian generic industry's voice was heard.

GSK’s first chief digital and technology officer shares with Scrip her views on things digital that could potentially transform the pharmaceutical business, the ex-Walmart executive noting how digital touch points with physicians are improving “in every single geography and every single product.”