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Akero Therapeutics, 89bio, Boston Pharmaceuticals and more are working to bring novel treatment options for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis to a market that could reach $16 billion by 2033.
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Halia Therapeutics, NodThera and Gain Therapeutics target neuroinflammatory processes in hopes of modifying the course of Parkinson’s progression.
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Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) will announce its third-quarter 2023 financial results on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023.
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—along with FDA Commissioner Marty Makary and CBER Director Vinay Prasad—argued against vaccine mandates, partly because they limited medical choice. This week, the FDA under their leadership approved updated COVID-19 vaccines with restrictions that do the same.
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Enhertu’s label expansion comes on the heels of the FDA’s approval of the partners’ Datroway for a related type of breast cancer.
Starboard last year took a $1 billion stake in Pfizer, looking to turn the pharma around after alleged severe shortcomings by its current leadership. But Bloomberg reports it has missed the deadline for nominating a director to the pharma’s board.
Little information has emerged about osavampator, a potentially first-in-class drug, since its promising Phase II performance last spring.
After two years characterized by layoffs, pipeline reorganizations, FDA delays and clinical holds, Novavax CEO John Jacobs says the company is at a pivot point.
The GLP-1 IPO arena has been heating up for the past two years and Metsera’s ask is one the largest in recent history.
After missing the primary endpoint in the Phase IIb SYMMETRY trial, Akero Therapeutics’ lead molecule, efruxifermin, showed greater improvements after 96 weeks of treatment in an advanced disease population.
Following disappointing clinical trial results for AK006, Allakos will cut its workforce down to under 20 employees as it explores strategic alternatives.
Following a lawsuit filed last week, Sage has officially rejected Biogen’s unsolicited buyout offer, which valued the embattled biotech at just $469 million.
Patients taking Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy plus Veru’s enobosarm saw 71% lower lean mass loss than those who were taking Wegovy alone but investors await more data.