Collaborative Arrangement, Term

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Collaborative Arrangements, Contract Value

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Number of Products

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Cost associated with reimbursable income. This occurs when a services entity incurs expenses on behalf of the client and passes through the cost of reimbursable expenses to a client.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 225
-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (SX 210.5-03.2)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=63488584&loc=d3e20235-122688

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Revenue from multiple-deliverable arrangements that include licensing fees and services revenue. Licensing revenue is consideration received from another party for the right to use, but not own, certain of the entity's intangible assets. Licensing arrangements include, but are not limited to, rights to use a patent, copyright, technology, manufacturing process, software or trademark. Licensing fees are generally, but not always, fixed as to amount and not dependent upon the revenue generated by the licensing party. An entity may receive licensing fees for licenses that also generate royalty payments to the entity. Services revenue may be derived by providing other, nonspecified, services during the reporting period.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 225
-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (SX 210.5-03.1(d),(e))
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=63488584&loc=d3e20235-122688

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The amount of consideration recognized during the period for the milestone or milestones.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 605
-SubTopic 28
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (e)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=68058744&loc=SL6892177-166501

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Co-Promotion Arrangement With Eagle Pharmaceuticals (Details) $ in Thousands		3 Months Ended		6 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Nov. 04, 2015 USD ($) product	Mar. 31, 2017 USD ($)	Mar. 31, 2016 USD ($)	Jun. 30, 2017 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2016 USD ($)
Collaborative Arrangements and Non-collaborative Arrangement Transactions [Line Items]
License fees and service revenue		$ 3,256	$ 8,625
Collaborative Arrangement, Co-promotion [Member]
Collaborative Arrangements and Non-collaborative Arrangement Transactions [Line Items]
Number of products \| product	6
Term of contract	18 months
Fixed payment	$ 12,800
Reimbursable expense		$ 2,100	$ 1,300
Maximum [Member] \| Collaborative Arrangement, Co-promotion [Member]
Collaborative Arrangements and Non-collaborative Arrangement Transactions [Line Items]
Milestone net sales achievement					$ 5,000
Maximum [Member] \| Scenario, Forecast [Member] \| Collaborative Arrangement, Co-promotion [Member]
Collaborative Arrangements and Non-collaborative Arrangement Transactions [Line Items]
Milestone net sales achievement				$ 4,000