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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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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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Argenx’s Vyvgart will now be available in the U.S. as a more convenient subcutaneous formulation 18 months after its first approval.
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The FDA has approved Jardiance and Synjardy as the first SGLT-2 inhibitors to treat pediatric Type 2 diabetes, providing a new class of oral medicines.
Following an FDA warning in May, Novo Nordisk has filed several lawsuits against spas, clinics and pharmacies selling compounded version of semaglutide.
An International Chamber of Commerce arbitration tribunal has dismissed Boehringer’s attempt to seek indemnification from Sanofi for the ongoing Zantac lawsuits faced by the companies.
Biopharma executives suggested that some companies might seek to bypass the U.S. government’s national health insurance program altogether, among other sweeping changes to drug development.
The latest round of layoffs comes just two months after Thermo Fisher announced plans to close three sites in San Diego, bringing the total to nearly 600 jobs cut in 2023.
The study participant who died was apparently ineligible for the treatment according to the trial protocol, Arcellx announced Monday. The company has since retrained the study’s clinical sites.
Eli Lilly stands to gain access to DICE Therapeutics’ DELSCAPE platform, which enables the design of orally available molecules for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.