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The failure of Roche’s Ionis-partnered tominersen in Huntington’s disease may indicate that Wave Life Sciences’ allele-specific antisense oligonucleotide candidate WVE-003 is on the right track, according to analysts at Rodman & Renshaw.
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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.
Regulators on both sides of the Atlantic are pushing for the withdrawal of the rare disease treatment that accounted for just 1% of Amgen’s 2025 revenue. Nevertheless, Amgen continues to defend the medicine, which was acquired in the $3.7 billion buyout of ChemoCentryx.
Psychedelics are gaining momentum in depression, with one treating physician predicting that the drug class could “wipe out the SSRIs” if safety and durability hold up.
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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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New study supports link between Alzheimer’s and other diseases and points out potential risk factors for developing Alzheimer’s later in life.
Lundbeck revealed that its migraine drug Vyepti failed to demonstrate statistical superiority over placebo at reducing the number of monthly migraine days.
The FDA’s decision on Axsome Therapeutics’ Auvelity is based on positive results from a massive clinical program that covered over 1,100 patients with depression.
The regulatory path for companies developing drugs for rare diseases is often fraught with challenges. KemPharm CEO Travis Mickle discussed just some of these with BioSpace.
Curis announced that the FDA has allowed patient enrollment to resume in the monotherapy phase of its TakeAim Leukemia Phase I/II trial studying emavusertib.
This week’s Movers & Shakers include Arvinas, Inspire and Cambridge Isotope Laboratories all announcing new VP roles, and several others tap new C-suite executives.
A trial evaluating generic drugs against severe COVID-19 provided data showing their overall ineffectiveness, and COVID-19-related lawsuits continue to pile up.
CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky announced plans to launch a “reset” of the agency amid criticism over its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and other public health threats.
South Korea-based Genuv Inc. announced the publication of a preclinical study showing the potential of Mekinist, approved by the FDA for melanoma, in Alzheimer’s disease.
Jazz Pharma is breaking new ground with its cannabidiol epilepsy treatment Epidiolex, taking the drug into a Phase III study in children and adolescents.