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Please check out the biopharma industry coronavirus (COVID-19) stories that are trending for December 29, 2020.
Every week there are numerous scientific studies published. Here’s a look at some of the more interesting ones.
An investigational asthma treatment, tezepelumab, under development by Amgen and AstraZeneca failed to reduce asthma patients’ dependence on corticosteroids.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved several drugs and medical devices in the last week. Here’s a look.
Please check out the biopharma industry coronavirus (COVID-19) stories that are trending for December 22, 2020.
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Myovant’s oral Orgovyx beat out Abbvie’s injectable Lupron in achieving medical castration levels in patients. Here is the timeline of the approval.
The FDA put a clinical hold on UniQure’s Phase III trial after a high-risk participant developed liver cancer.
A new and more easily transmissible strain of COVID-19, dubbed VUI-202012/01, has now been reported in at least six different countries and global territories since it first appeared in the U.K. a few weeks ago.
The company bolstered its presence in oncology with the acquisition of the clinical and research-stage oncology business of Agios in a deal worth up to $2 billion.
AB Science SA reported promising data from its Phase IIb/III trial of masitinib in patients with confirmed mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease.
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