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Cancer doesn’t care if you’re Democratic, Republican, Libertarian or Green. It strikes without prejudice or consideration. As President Joe Biden said Wednesday night in his first major speech to Congress, “I know of nothing that is more bipartisan.”
A recent report by Deerfield Management Company revealed an unsettling but unsurprising truth: There is a significant gender gap on the boards of venture-backed healthcare companies.
Levitt has practiced law for over 20 years in the FDA regulatory space. Previously chief regulatory counsel for Pfizer Inc., Levitt has had extensive experience working with an interdisciplinary team of scientists, executives and lawyers to push a candidate to market.
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A U.S. FDA committee gave the nod to continue using Genentech’s checkpoint inhibitor Tecentriq in combination with chemotherapy to treat adults with mTNBC.
A multi-day conference hosted by Biogen during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic has been determined to be a super-spreader event, with more than 300,000 infections linked to the conference.
In phase one of the two-part program, access to tofersen will be granted on an individual basis to SOD1-ALS patients with an ALS Functional Rating Scale - Revised (ALSFRS-R) slope decline greater than or equal to 2 points per month.
As vaccinations against COVID-19 continue across the U.S., there appears to be an increase in cases in younger populations.
As a devastating pandemic increased scientific collaboration globally, CSL was already ahead of the curve with teams spanning the continents, working together to advance lifesaving treatments and technologies.
Executives at pharmaceutical companies are known for receiving large salaries. When bonuses and stock options are factored into the picture, their annual compensation can jump into the range of tens of millions of dollars, like Pfizer’s Albert Bourla, Alex Gorsky from Johnson & Johnson, and AstraZeneca’s Pascal Soriot.
A new study suggests that many patients with long-term COVID-19 symptoms still experience health issues six months following infection, are survivors with “long haul” disease have a greater risk of dying and use a more significant number of medications than patients who have fully recovered from the virus.
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