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Endo shifts focus from pain to specialty in U.S. branded business, eliminates pain sales force
DUBLIN — Endo is shifting the focus of its U.S. branded portfolio of drugs, starting with the return of rights to Belbuca (buprenorphine ) buccal film to BioDelivery Sciences International, which was announced Thursday. The company also announced that its pain portfolio no longer requires field sales promotion and is eliminating its 375-member U.S. branded pain sales field force.21st Century Cures Act passes Senate, heads to Obama’s desk
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted 94-5 on Wednesday to pass the 21st Century Cures Act, sending it to the desk of President Barack Obama. The act, which was passed by the House of Representatives on Nov. 30, includes funding to support the fight against prescription drug abuse and funding for the National Institutes of Health’s cancer initiative, known as Vice President Joe Biden’s “cancer moonshot” initiative, which was renamed by the Senate after Biden’s son, Beau, who died of cancer in 2015.