BioSpace News Archive

The high cost of some prescription drugs has been a political target of the White House and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar honed in on one potential solution that he claims his department can control – drug rebates.

Researchers from Amen Clinics in Costa Mesa, California, Google, John’s Hopkins University, University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, San Francisco studied 62,454 brain scans of more than 30,000 people to study brain aging.

An article published earlier this summer in the Journal of Dental Research suggests that “bioengineered tooth buds” are a “superior alternative tooth replacement therapy.” In the article “Bioengineered Tooth Buds Exhibit Features of Natural Tooth Buds,” the authors report that artificial implants do not exhibit the same properties as natural teeth and are therefore subject to certain complications.

Illinois-based AbbVie stepped up to the plate and delivered when it came to supporting the families of children battling serious illnesses who require extended hospitalization.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Merck & Co.’s Keytruda another approval, this one in combination with Alimta (pemetrexed) and platinum chemotherapy for first-line treatment of metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), with no EGFR or ALK genomic tumor aberrations.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared Cleveland-based SPR Therapeutics’ SPRINT endura (single lead) and extensa (dual lead) Peripheral Nerve Stimulation (PNS) Systems for controlling pain.

As the U.S. Food and Drug Administration begins to take aim at updating its 40-year-old draft guidance on drugs that treat major depressive disorder (MDD), three drugmakers with key business in that space are raising some concerns.

CBT Pharmaceuticals (CBT), a U.S. and China-based innovative biopharmaceutical company committed to becoming a leader in the discovery and development of oncology combination therapies, today announced a new global leadership structure and the appointment of Yuling Li, PhD as Senior Vice President, Process Development and Manufacturing.

Inc. magazine collates an annual list of the fastest-growing private companies in America. This year, 15 of the top 5,000 were related to healthcare, medical devices and biopharma.