Hikma addressed supply concerns and the latest legal worries for its generic Vascepa product, as well as the recent launch of its long-awaited Advair generic, as management faced the virtual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference.

Issues over supply and the use of a skinny label have the potential to take a toll on the market for the fish oil drug icosapent ethyl, one analyst has claimed in the wake of Hikma’s recent generic launch.

Hikma has pushed back against a further attempt by Amarin to counter its US generic version of Vascepa, this time via a fresh lawsuit claiming that the generic induces infringement of patents protecting cardiovascular indications for which the brand is approved but which are carved out of the generic label.