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In his State of the Union address on Tuesday evening, President Donald Trump urged Republican leaders to pass legislation cementing his new drug pricing initiatives as he touted his efforts to lower healthcare costs for Americans.
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Rare disease drug developers struggle to survive in a biopharma investment market that prioritizes large patient populations. Initiatives like the Orphan Therapeutics Accelerator are attempting to solve what CEO Craig Martin says is not a science problem, but a math problem.
Eli Lilly’s win in a head-to-head trial drove Novo Nordisk’s market cap to pre-Wegovy levels not long after the victor became the first pharma company to top a $1 trillion valuation. It seems one company can do no right, while the other can do no wrong.
Corsera Health’s Chief Operating Officer Rena Denoncourt and CFO Meredith Kaya speak with BioSpace about the biotech’s mission and vision for the next generation of cardiovascular care.
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Following the FDA’s refusal to review Moderna’s investigational mRNA flu vaccine last week, Commissioner Marty Makary faced questions from the U.S. president about the agency’s handling of vaccines. It’s a clear signal that the tension long brewing at the drug regulator has now gone all the way to the top.
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The losing streak continues for Merck and Eisai with their Keytruda-Lenvima combination failing to improve progression-free survival and overall survival in two late-stage lung cancer studies.
Despite meeting the primary endpoint and eliciting endoscopic improvements in ulcerative colitis, Morphic Therapeutic’s investigational pill underwhelmed investors with its stock plummeting.
ARS Pharmaceuticals, Intarcia Therapeutics and Taysha Gene Therapies this week got stark reminders of the difficulties in getting treatments through the regulator’s approval process.
Recent drug approvals have shone a light on the role that patient advocacy groups can play in the regulatory process—but some experts have questions about the ethics of this influence.
The companies, which are collaborating on a drug combination to treat locally advanced and metastatic urothelial cancer, announced Friday that their Phase III trial met dual primary endpoints.
The companies’ antibody-drug conjugate improved progression-free survival with a “trend in improvement” for overall survival in patients with HR-positive, HER2-low or negative breast cancer.
A U.S. federal court upheld a prior ruling in favor of Roche’s Genentech, finding that its blockbuster hemophilia treatment Hemlibra did not infringe on patent protections held by Takeda’s Baxalta.
Thursday’s FDA advisory committee rejection is the latest regulatory defeat for the company’s drug-device combo. The panel found that the benefits of the treatment did not outweigh its risks.
The company’s treatment for IgA nephropathy, sparsentan, failed to meet statistical significance by a measure of kidney function in a head-to-head confirmatory study versus irbesartan.
After announcing a $1 billion radiopharma deal with PeptiDream, Genentech signed a separate deal with Orionis Biosciences for its molecular glue degraders to target cancer and neurodegeneration.