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The CDC’s changes threaten to cut vaccine sales for makers including Pfizer, Moderna, Merck and more, but a legal expert suspects affected manufacturers will stay on the sidelines rather than back a push to declare the revised schedule unlawful.
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After a rocky 2025, Sarepta Therapeutics’ executives admit they have work to do to bring patients back into the fold as sales of Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene therapy Elevidys continue to decline.
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Last week, the FDA made its one pivotal trial policy official, sparking myriad questions from industry leaders, including around specific evidence required for the single study and why it hasn’t been implemented across all therapeutic areas before now.
Alternatives to opioids are desperately needed to better treat moderate to severe acute pain, but to date, we’ve seen few novel analgesics hit the market.
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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.
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Boehringer Ingelheim and Zealand Pharma’s dual glucagon/GLP-1 receptor agonist elicited significant topline Phase II results in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis.
Approved earlier this month for children and adults with one or more food allergies, Xolair in a Phase III study reduced severe allergic reactions in patients suffering from multiple food allergies.
Johnson & Johnson and Legend Biotech got a positive opinion from a European Medicines Agency panel for earlier lines of treatment, as they ready for a March FDA advisory committee meeting.
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On Friday, Alvotech and Teva Pharmaceuticals finally secured the FDA’s greenlight for their Humira biosimilar Simlandi, which now has the regulator’s interchangeability designation.
GSK terminated their collaboration with Vir to research, develop and commercialize the biotech’s monoclonal antibodies for the prevention, treatment, or prophylaxis of the influenza under a 2021 agreement.
The cancer space has been aflutter with notable approvals so far this year, but there are several more candidates with significant data expected over the next four months. BioSpace takes a closer look.
Thanks to the success of outgoing CEO Richard Gonzalez, biopharma executives will be studying for years to come how AbbVie navigated the decline of blockbuster Humira.
The FDA’s target decision date is June 27, 2024, the companies announced Friday. Sanofi and Regeneron are looking to expand blockbuster Dupixent into chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
A year after Roche returned Gavreto’s global rights to Blueprint Medicines, Rigel Pharmaceuticals has acquired the U.S. rights to the FDA-approved treatment for non-small cell lung cancer.
The biotech will use the oversubscribed Series C financing to advance its next-generation KRAS blocker FMC-376, which saw its first patient dosed in a Phase I/II clinical trial on Thursday.