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The administration’s direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical sales platform will offer products from Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Novo Nordisk, Amgen and more at a discount, though the impact of such pricing remains to be seen.
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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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In a 6-0 vote, the FDA’s advisory committee Friday affirmed that trial data confirmed the clinical benefit of Eisai and Biogen’s Leqembi (lecanemab) for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease.
In a late-stage study of non-ambulatory patients with DMD on background corticosteroids, pamrevlumab failed to meet the primary endpoint for upper limb performance.
Promosome filed lawsuits Tuesday against Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech, alleging that the vaccine developers used patent-protected mRNA technology without a license.
The Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit takes an unusual strategy, according to legal experts, raising concerns and uncertainties in the biopharma industry.
While approved in non-small cell lung cancer, Keytruda failed to provide benefit for the TKI-resistant, EGFR-mutant subtype of the disease.
In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal district court, Merck claimed that the price negotiation program laid out in the Inflation Reduction Act violates the U.S. Constitution.
Biogen, and partner Denali, are discontinuing the Phase III LIGHTHOUSE study of BIIB122 in Parkinson’s disease due to the trial’s long timeline and complexity.
Neurologist David Weisman, with financial ties to the companies, was removed from the FDA’s upcoming advisory committee meeting slated to consider Leqembi’s traditional approval.
A Kenilworth, NJ, R&D campus that formerly served as Merck’s global headquarters is now set to reopen and become the Northeast Science and Technology (NEST) Center.
The combination therapy was added to standard chemotherapy and lowered the risk of progression or death by 37% in newly diagnosed patients with advanced ovarian cancer without BRCA mutations.