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16 February 2021PharmaMuireann Bolger

Antitrust HIV drugs case should be arbitrated, argue Gilead, BMS

Gilead Sciences and Bristol-Myers Squibb have said that a suit alleging they were involved in a long-running scheme to block generic competition and keep HIV medication prices artificially high is “legally defective”.

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