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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Friday it will impose inflation penalties on 43 Medicare Part B drugs in the third quarter of 2023. The action follows fines on 27 drugs in March.
Data show the potential of Editas’ sickle cell disease and transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia gene therapy candidate, but it might not be enough to overtake Vertex and CRISPR Therapeutics.
The FDA has launched a new super office to prepare for myriad decisions on cell and gene therapies, including the potential first CRISPR therapy and the first gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
The FDA’s Antimicrobial Drugs Advisory Committee voted 21–0 that the companies’ respiratory syncytial virus antibody, nirsevimab, has a favorable benefit-risk profile in infants and young children.
The FDA has four target action dates this week for three supplemental approvals and one New Drug Approval.
The company said Thursday it has closed $200 million in Series B financing—on top of last year’s $200 million Series A haul—to help initiate a registrational Phase II study for its lead candidate UPB-101.
With the 2023 American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in the history books, BioSpace takes a look back at the presented data that oncologists think will be most practice-changing.
A total of nine U.S. cities stood out in terms of total NIH funding in 2022.
The start-up’s lead program, BRB-002, is designed to target the CD47/SIRPα pathway and the underlying causes of vascular inflammation and atherosclerosis.
Astellas Pharma will license and further develop a gene therapy from Kate Therapeutics aimed at addressing XLMTM amid safety concerns about its own experimental XLMTM treatment.
A class-action lawsuit from thousands of third-party payers alleges that the companies broke racketeering laws to market their diabetes drug Actos, while not disclosing its bladder cancer risk.
In a 6-0 vote, the FDA’s advisory committee Friday affirmed that trial data confirmed the clinical benefit of Eisai and Biogen’s Leqembi (lecanemab) for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease.
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