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  Policy

  Merck Drops After Withdrawing European App for Wonder Drug Keytruda

  Late on Friday, Merck announced that it had pulled its application for Keytruda in combination with pemetrexed and carboplatin as a first-line treatment for metastatic nonsquamous NSCLC from the EMA.

  October 27, 2017

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  Mark Terry
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  BioCapital

  Why This Pharma Surged After Trump’s Opioid Declaration

  Opiant Pharmaceuticals spiked 46 percent Thursday when President Donald Trump declared a crackdown on opioid abuse.

  October 27, 2017

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  Policy

  Billionaire Insys Founder Charged With Bribing Doctors to Prescribe Opioid Painkillers

  Once again Insys has been rocked by an indictment.

  October 27, 2017

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  Alex Keown
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  Policy

  Johnson & Johnson Lawyers Vehemently Denies Tampering Allegations in Hip Case

  Last week a federal judge asked prosecutors and the FBI to look into possible witness tampering.

  October 27, 2017

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  Genetown

  Hackers are Able to Exploit Boston Scientific’s Zoom Latitude Device, Says Feds

  The Zoom Latitude programmer is made by a Boston Scientific division headquartered in Minnesota.

  October 27, 2017

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• Business

  Xtant Medical to Announce Third Quarter 2017 Results on Wednesday, November 8th

  An accompanying conference call will be conducted by the CEO and CFO to review the results.

  October 27, 2017

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  FDA

  Butterfly Network’s First Ultrasound-on-a-Chip Receives Broadest FDA 510(k) Clearance

  The clearance covers 13 clinical applications, the broadest ever for a single ultrasound transducer.

  October 27, 2017

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• Business

  ICON and the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement Unveil the World’s First Global Patient Outcomes Benchmarking Platform

  ICON, and the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) shared the findings of a global patient outcomes benchmarking platform at this week’s ICHOM’s annual conference in Washington DC.

  October 27, 2017

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• Medovex Corporation Comments on President Trump Declaring the Opioid Crisis a National Public Health Emergency

  National Center for Health Statistics estimate drug overdoses due to opioid use increased 21% in 2016; 64,070 Americans died as a result of opioid use in the last year.

  October 27, 2017

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• Drug Development

  ORIC Pharma Announces First Subject Dosed in Phase I Clinical Study of Novel GR Antagonist with Planned Development for Oncology

  ORIC Pharma announced today that the first subject in a Phase Ia clinical study has been dosed with ORIC-101, a potent small molecule inhibitor of the glucocorticoid receptor.

  October 27, 2017

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