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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Bridgewater, NJ-based Amneal Pharmaceuticals’ generic version of Novartis’ Exelon Patch (Rivastigmine Transdermal System) for dementia related to Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases.

After four years at AstraZeneca, Chief Medical Officer Sean Bohen will be leaving the company following an organizational shakeup at the U.K.-based pharma giant. Bohen joined AstraZeneca from Genentech in 2015 and also serves as head of global medicines development.

Artificial intelligence technology has an established home in drug design for many developers. Now, researchers are seeing it as a potential tool in driving therapeutic choices in the treatment of ovarian cancer.

Aslan Pharmaceuticals’ first-line therapy for HER1/HER2 co-expressing cancer tumors failed to meet primary endpoints in a mid-stage trial after 12 weeks of treatment, the company announced Sunday.

New Year, fresh start? Could be. WalletHub recently compared more than 180 cities across the U.S., using 30 key indicators to evaluate their job strength. Some of those factors were job opportunities, employment growth, monthly average starting salary and employment outlook.

Despite the government shutdown, at least two biotech companies, Kaleido Biosciences and Cirius Therapeutics, have filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for initial public offerings (IPO).

“Think of it as an installment plan that’s then tied to how well the therapy works,” Mark Trusheim, strategic director of the MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation’s NEWDIGS program, told Business Insider. “This would be a car loan but you’ve still got to see if the car is going to work.”

The Orphan Drug Act (ODA) was enacted on January 4, 1983. It was designed to encourage the development of drugs for rare diseases. The law was amended the following year to define rare diseases as ones that affect fewer than 200,000 people in the U.S. But it also included drugs that affect more than 200,000 people the costs of developing and marketing the drug in the U.S. would exceed revenue from U.S. sales.

A well-known market intelligence company, Infiniti Research, has announced the completion of their latest article on the demand management best practices for medical devices’ performance tracking.