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The rare disease drugmaker is facing potential competitors for achondroplasia drug Voxzogo. Is a big M&A deal with two approved assets enough to maintain investor interest?
The FDA issued a rare Refusal-to-File letter to Moderna over its mRNA-based influenza vaccine application, in an unusual move that sent the biotech’s shares tumbling.
A rapturous response to data published last year for Pelage’s hair loss candidate overwhelmed the biotech. Now, the company is ready to show the world the science behind the breakthrough.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.