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While the pathogen appears unlikely to trigger a pandemic, analysts see potential for Moderna to build goodwill amid a period of political pressure on vaccine manufacturers.
Clinical trial setbacks have limited the near-term opportunities for some of Daiichi Sankyo’s ADCs but the drug developer is betting near-term readouts will catapult it into the top tier of oncology companies in the coming years.
BioSpace analyzed the pay ratio across 10 major pharmaceutical companies to determine which CEOs were paid the most relative to typical employees. J&J, Eli Lilly and Pfizer once again topped the list.
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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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The joint committee of external experts voted unanimously in favor of Perrigo, finding that the benefits of allowing non-prescription use of the birth control tablet Opill outweigh its risks.
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Colchicine, a drug used to treat gout, saw a 16-fold price increase since the FDA changed its policy toward single-ingredient oral colchicine products, which had previously been available generically.
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A federal judge compelled Merck to release confidential information on its HPV vaccine as a part of discovery in a series of lawsuits spanning states dating back to 2020.
The approval of Reata Pharmaceuticals’ Skyclarys for Friedreich’s ataxia highlights progress being made in the treatment of rare mitochondrial diseases.
The FDA set a new action date of June 22 for Sarepta’s gene therapy for the neuromuscular disease, approximately three weeks after the original date of May 29.
The acquisition provides the Swedish company with an approved JAK inhibitor for myelofibrosis, a rare bone marrow cancer that disrupts the body’s normal production of blood cells.
The biotechnology industry may not suffer as many losses as other industries due to generative AI, but the future of the job market is still uncertain for some.
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Elfabrio’s label contains a boxed warning for hypersensitivity reactions, such as anaphylaxis, and recommends that medical support measures should be on standby when administering the treatment.
Developers of psychedelics-based therapies say the industry is poised to explode, with several reporting strong clinical trial results and the FDA granting breakthrough status for two hallucinogenic drugs.
The biotech company shuffled deals around Tuesday, dropping a four-year collaboration with Israel’s Entera Bio and picking a new partner in Massachusetts-based TScan Therapeutics.