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The CDC’s changes threaten to cut vaccine sales for makers including Pfizer, Moderna, Merck and more, but a legal expert suspects affected manufacturers will stay on the sidelines rather than back a push to declare the revised schedule unlawful.
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After a rocky 2025, Sarepta Therapeutics’ executives admit they have work to do to bring patients back into the fold as sales of Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene therapy Elevidys continue to decline.
Last week, the FDA made its one pivotal trial policy official, sparking myriad questions from industry leaders, including around specific evidence required for the single study and why it hasn’t been implemented across all therapeutic areas before now.
Alternatives to opioids are desperately needed to better treat moderate to severe acute pain, but to date, we’ve seen few novel analgesics hit the market.
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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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The new legislation could increase healthcare spending overall while reducing biopharma’s return on investment on biologic drugs.
Despite failing a previous late-stage study, VistaGen’s fasedienol finally scored a win by meeting its primary endpoint and strongly easing distress among patients with social anxiety disorder.
Following a handful of clinical failures and changes to its leadership, FibroGen is trying to chart a more positive path forward by focusing on four strategic areas.
The Danish company’s vaccine candidate met all co-primary endpoints in a late-stage study in adults and adolescents just months after publishing trial data for elderly patients, as it seeks to challenge Valneva.
In a lawsuit filed Monday, Nektar Therapeutics accused Eli Lilly of scheming to ensure rezpegaldesleukin would not succeed after acquiring a competing medicine.
The FDA approved Sage and Biogen’s zuranolone Friday as the first oral medication for postpartum depression but declined to approve the application in major depressive disorder.
Friday, Iveric Bio scored a regulatory win for its geographic atrophy eye injection Izervay, just three months after the New Jersey biotech was bought by Astellas Pharma for $5.9 billion.
The Phase III STAND trial found no significant therapeutic benefit to Novartis’ Adakveo, pushing the European Commission to revoke its conditional authorization of the SCD treatment.
A transformational moment in the treatment of depression, GSK takes first shot in a vaccine patent war with Pfizer, a Louisiana woman sues Novo Nordisk and Lilly, and companies face a steep COVID-19 cliff.
Partners Biogen and Sage Therapeutics had sought approval for the therapy in both postpartum depression and major depressive disorder, but the FDA rejected the application for the latter.