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Galapagos NV announces topline interim results of Part 1 of the FALCON trial in cystic fibrosis (CF).

Galapagos NV announce a restructuring of their cystic fibrosis (CF) alliance; AbbVie takes over all programs in CF and continues the development of a triple combination therapy for CF.

In the wake of a significant number of journal articles being retracted due to falsified data, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, is halting a clinical trial that is testing an experimental stem cell therapy for heart patients.

Denmark-based Genmab A/S released topline data from its Phase III MAIA trial of a drug it licensed to Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen Biotech, Darzalex (daratumumab).

Privately-held Grunenthal GmbH will pay AstraZeneca $700 million for the prescription medicine rights to acid-reflux medicine Nexium. The deal with AstraZeneca represents the largest investment in Grünenthal company history.

According to Jay Bradner, president of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, the company is cutting its drug programs from 430 to 340. One of the big areas the company is abandoning is infectious diseases. The decision is a result of a strategic review by Vasant (Vas) Narasimhan, the company’s chief executive officer.

Janssen and Gilead Sciences continue to showcase the potential treatment abilities of their respective HIV treatments. This morning the two companies released 96-week data demonstrating their efficacy and safety that was presented during an HIV conference in the United Kingdom.

There is increasing evidence that there is some sort of association between sleep problems and dementias such as Alzheimer’s disease. This was further linked with a recent research study published in the journal Sleep.