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The FDA is often publishing draft guidelines and asking for expert feedback on that guidance. It’s been a busy week in this regard, with several areas of healthcare and drug development and manufacturing being covered by the agency. Here’s a look.
The American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting is always chock full of interesting research and development stories. Here’s a look at some of the highlights of the meeting so far, which is continuing today.
Tesaro, located in Waltham, Mass., is rumored to be up for sale. The rumors caused shares to rocket as much as 39 percent on Friday, but it’s not the first time rumors have floated that the company might be on the auction block.
Chicago-based AbbVie just announced new data for its Mavyret (glecaprevir/pibrentasvir), a pan-genotypic treatment for chronic HCV in treatment-naive patients with compensated cirrhosis.
As an outbreak of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo worsens, a team of health officials has taken four experimental vaccines to the front lines and begun to administer it to patients who may have been exposed to the deadly virus.
The deal, which will last several years, has Tango performing target discovery and validation. Gilead will be able to option rights to up to five targets that come out of Tango’s work.
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.
It may not have always felt like it, but biotech has been in a bull market mode over the past two-and-a-half years, ever since the iShares Biotechnology Index (IBB) bottomed out at $80.01 on February 9, 2016.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts a 7 percent increase in jobs for biomedical engineers and a 13 percent increase in medical scientists.
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