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FDA decisions lack majority consensus, experts agree, possibly leading to less nuanced verdicts on new drug applications. This type of “fiat” decision-making, as multiple regulatory experts have called it, is also bleeding into the agency’s policymaking.
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Generate:Biomedicines has hit the public markets as the world begins to question the usefulness of AI technology. CEO Mike Nally says biology is the key to unlocking the technology’s full potential.
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Eli Lilly’s win in a head-to-head trial drove Novo Nordisk’s market cap to pre-Wegovy levels not long after the victor became the first pharma company to top a $1 trillion valuation. It seems one company can do no right, while the other can do no wrong.
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AstraZeneca has secured the FDA’s green light for Voydeya, a first-in-class, oral, Factor D inhibitor developed as an add-on to its standard-of-care Ultomiris or Soliris for certain patients with paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria.
The filing of a Biologics License Application for a subcutaneous version of Biogen and Eisai’s Leqembi (lecanemab) has been delayed due to procedural reasons, the companies announced Monday.
Despite strong demand for weight-loss drugs, the lack of Medicare coverage is potentially interfering with prescription and dispensing rates of anti-obesity medications for elderly adults, according to a new study.
Bristol Myers Squibb’s $4.8 billion acquisition of Mirati pays off with strong data from the KRYSTAL-12 study of Krazati, showing that the KRAS inhibitor significantly improves progression-free survival.
Avalo Therapeutics rolled the dice on a big pivot Wednesday, acquiring AlmataBio and focusing on the biotech’s ex-Eli Lilly hidradenitis suppurativa candidate over its existing assets.
Gamida Cell, whose cell therapy for blood cancer was approved last year by the FDA, is being taken private and restructuring due to liquidity constraints.
Sanders says he wants Novo Nordisk to “do the right thing” and lower the costs of Ozempic and Wegovy. But only the Inflation Reduction Act can achieve that.
U.S. intelligence officials have informed senators that China-based biotech WuXi AppTec transferred an American client’s intellectual property to the Chinese government without consent, reports Reuters.
Citing the need for more time to review a major amendment, the FDA is pushing the target action date for the investigational aldose reductase inhibitor in the treatment of classic galactosemia to Nov. 28, 2024.
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Gilead Sciences’ Vemlidy on Thursday secured a label expansion from the FDA, allowing the antiviral drug’s use to treat chronic hepatitis B in pediatric patients aged six years and older.