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Sales of Johnson & Johnson’s esketamine-based nasal spray jumped in the fourth quarter last year, priming the pump for a suite of other pharmas, including AbbVie, champing at the bit with their own psychedelics.
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Analysts parsed the limited data available for Pfizer’s obesity candidate on the pharma’s fourth-quarter earnings call Tuesday, looking for any nugget of additional context.
After advancing in lockstep through the pandemic, the fortunes of the biotechs have diverged as their use of COVID-19 windfalls has taken shape.
After suffering in the wake of expired tax incentives for pharmas, the island is trying to take advantage of geopolitics to grow its drug manufacturing sector.
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Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly have been battling head-to-head in an exploding obesity market. They should never have been compared apples to apples.
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The pendulum has swung back in favor of employees, and employers are struggling to retain employees as workers become less engaged.
The company teased data for efinopegdutide, a GLP-1/glucagon receptor co-agonist, in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis compared to Novo Nordisk’s semaglutide, which is not yet approved for NASH.
The initial public offering on the Nasdaq is a last-ditch effort by the biotech as there is “substantial doubt” as to the company’s “ability to continue as a going concern” without the IPO, according to its SEC filing.
Data from a Phase II trial showed that Adcetris, used in a combination approach, is effective in early-stage classical Hodgkin lymphoma patients.
Valneva’s chikungunya vaccine candidate VLA1553 showed that the shot safely and rapidly induced high rates of seroprotection. Merck earlier in 2023 discontinued its chikungunya program.
Following a May 2023 settlement with Amgen, J&J has also signed an agreement with Teva and Alvotech, allowing their Stelara biosimilar to enter the U.S. no later than February 21, 2025.
The company announced Monday its shareholders elected Susan Langer, current president of Souffle Therapeutics, to its board of directors, replacing her reputed romantic partner Alex Denner.
After multiple delays, the contract manufacturer presents its earnings report for the third quarter of fiscal 2023, bumping its stock by more than 10%.