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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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Novo Nordisk’s blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy was approved on Friday by the FDA to reduce the risk of cardiovascular death, heart attack and stroke in adults who have cardiovascular disease and are obese or overweight.
In this deep dive, BioSpace examines what’s next for Leqembi, the true cost of anti-amyloid antibodies, and what other Alzheimer’s treatments are coming down the pipeline.
The approval, which Bristol Myers Squibb reported on Thursday, positions the company to compete with Astellas and Pfizer’s Padcev.
According to Fresenius Kabi, Tyenne is the first biosimilar to Genentech’s Acterma which has both IV and subcutaneous formulations approved by the FDA.
The company announced Thursday it terminated its BTK inhibitor evobrutinib for multiple sclerosis, which did not meet the primary endpoints in two late-stage trials.
MindMed’s stock price jumped over 50% Thursday as its LSD-based candidate for generalized anxiety disorder got a breakthrough therapy designation from the FDA.
President Biden called for expanding the Inflation Reduction Act to lower prescription drug prices. What would Trump do if he wins the 2024 election?
BMS and J&J will meet with the Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee Friday to discuss their CAR-T therapies Abecma and Carvykti as the companies seek their approval as earlier lines of treatment.
The FDA will convene its Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee to discuss Eli Lilly’s application for its Alzheimer’s disease antibody donanemab, the company announced Friday.
Friday’s topline data from the Phase III PHOENIX trial of Relyvrio, which won approval in 2022, showed no significant difference on either the primary or secondary endpoints, according to Amylyx.