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Jim O’Neill was deputy secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services and also acting director of the CDC after the abrupt ouster of Susan Monarez in August 2025.
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Bristol Myers Squibb, GSK and Merck are contributing drug ingredients as part of their deals with the White House but are keeping many of the terms of their agreements private.
Some 200 rare disease therapies are at risk of losing eligibility for a pediatric priority review voucher, a recent analysis by the Rare Disease Company Coalition shows. That could mean $4 billion in missed revenue for already cash-strapped biotechs.
The FDA’s rare pediatric disease priority review voucher program missed reauthorization at the last minute in 2024; advocates have been fighting to get it back ever since.
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission gave the green light to the $63 billion merger of AbbVie and Allergan. That leaves one last hurdle for the two companies, approval from the Irish High Court.
In an interview with National Geographic, Fauci once again sided with the evidence that indicates the virus is a species jumper and originated in the animal kingdom.
Please check out the biopharma industry coronavirus (COVID-19) stories that are trending for May 5, 2020.
Leaders from all over the world met for a virtual summit on Monday, May 4 to pledge billions of dollars to fund development of a vaccine against COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Noticeably absent was the United States.
The Hill reports that the six or eight selected will go into clinical trials, where “health experts are looking to weed out faulty candidates and come out with three or four vaccines that clear final testing to be used by early 2021.”
Please check out the biopharma industry coronavirus (COVID-19) stories that are trending for May 4, 2020.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration green-lit Roche’s new Elecsys Anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody test that will help determine whether or not people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and developed antibodies to the disease.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Gilead’s remdesivir under Emergency Use Authorization as a treatment for COVID-19 following reports the drug met its primary endpoint in a U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) clinical trial.
There’s plenty of news related to clinical trials related to COVID-19, but it does seem to be drowning out non-COVID-19-related clinical trials. Here’s a look.
Please check out the biopharma industry coronavirus (COVID-19) stories that are trending for May 1, 2020.