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Biogen touted an “unprecedented” drop in tau in a Phase 2 trial, backing the company’s decision to take diranersen to Phase 3 despite a missed primary endpoint and seemingly supporting the anti-tau approach.
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The lineup at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference will provide critical insight into where the industry is headed with regard to targets being explored to vanquish the elusive neurodegenerative disease.
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Congressional letters sent to the CEOs of Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Merck, BMS and AbbVie this week voicing concerns about the pharmas’ clinical trials in China highlight an ongoing discrepancy in how government and industry think about the rise of the Asian country’s biotech industry.
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The regulator lifted a clinical hold on Verve Therapeutics’ CRISPR-based therapy clearing its Investigational New Drug application and plans to evaluate VERVE-101 in a Phase I heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia trial.
The Swiss pharma reported a 12% sales increase and 21% core operating growth for the third quarter on Tuesday, while raising its full-year earnings forecast for the third time.
The country is considering restricting the use of Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic to just type 2 diabetes and prohibiting its prescription for weight loss as the company struggles with continued supply constraints.
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The regulator has approved the first-ever subcutaneous version of infliximab, an IgG1 monoclonal antibody, commonly sold by Johnson & Johnson under the brand name Remicade.
The companies presented data from two pivotal studies of Dato-DXd, focusing on safety concerns and survival data for the investigational antibody-drug conjugate candidate in lung and breast cancer.
Pluvicto improved radiographic progression-free survival in PSMA-positive patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who had not been treated with taxane-based chemotherapy.
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