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New guidelines from two leading medical associations suggest that efforts to reduce bad cholesterol should focus on maintaining low levels of two key lipoproteins. Big pharma is all in, looking to improve on the standard statins to help vanquish America’s number one killer: heart disease.
The FDA’s decision last year to make complete response letters public provides new insight into why therapies sometimes fail to get the regulatory greenlight. Analysts say the information could help sponsors refine their regulatory strategies.
The Department of Health and Human Services is spinning its wheels, unable to establish steady leadership at three major divisions—the CDC and the FDA’s two primary review units.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s health department has consistently touted radical transparency as being key to its mission. Recent instances—the FDA’s decision not to disclose the recipients of three Commissioner’s National Priority Vouchers and FDA and CDC choices not to publish vaccine-related papers—call this intent into question.
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Amit Dagar, a former Pfizer employee, was found guilty of insider trading by a federal jury in New York involving clinical trial results for COVID-19 antiviral Paxlovid that he profited from.
From ALS to depression to Huntington’s disease, many neuroscience-focused companies are anticipating key data over the next few months.
The pharma execs may be served with subpoenas to appear before the Senate health committee to explain why their products are much more expensive in the U.S. than in other countries, according to chairman Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Nearly two decades in the making, the companies expect to close the deal in the first half of 2024, after which Taro Pharmaceutical will become a privately held entity and will no longer trade on the New York Stock Exchange.
A legislative proposal, if passed into law, could cost the United States up to 1.2 million jobs and lead to more than 130 fewer FDA approvals over a 10-year period, according to a new report.
CBER Director Peter Marks recently spoke in favor of single-arm trials in certain situations, but clinicians and ethicists say there are several variables to consider.
The bladder cancer-focused biotech is looking to be one of the first companies out of the gate with an initial public offering in 2024.
Regulatory authorities worldwide are tightening their monitoring mechanisms and launching their own investigations after reports of secondary malignancies potentially linked to chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapies.
Taiwanese contract development and manufacturing organization Bora will purchase Minnesota-based Upsher-Smith Laboratories, expanding operations into the U.S. for the first time.
The FDA’s Complete Response Letter identified problems with the drug candidate’s chemistry, manufacturing and controls, parent company Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories announced Thursday.