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As a sweltering heat wave hit…
As a sweltering heat wave hit Europe, a swath of pharma companies and healthcare marketing agencies from around the world descended on southern France chasing a hot streak of their own.
A Loophole Brings Cystic Fibrosis Patients a ‘Miracle Drug’ in Generic Form
A generic version of a breakthrough cystic fibrosis drug, manufactured in Bangladesh for a fraction of the American price, may give some families around the world an unlikely lifeline.
The newly unsealed lawsuit…
The newly unsealed lawsuit highlights potential False Claims Act violations and comes from five whistleblowers who previously worked on Xolair promotion at the companies.
While dealmaking and investment…
While dealmaking and investment dollars may be flowing across biopharma once again, acute challenges tied to policy, pricing and more continue to dog the industry, even as pipelines bring massive sales opportunities to bear.
The Claudin18.2-targeted therapy…
The Claudin18.2-targeted therapy is the first CAR-T to win global approval in a solid tumor.
Amid efforts in Germany to retool…
Amid efforts in Germany to retool the country’s drug spending, the U.S. is launching an investigation into what the Office of the United States Trade Representative has branded “persistent underpayment” by the European nation for
Pfizer’s complaint about…
Pfizer’s complaint about Alnylam’s activities at a cardiology congress has led the PMCPA to chastise the biotech, although the U.K. marketing watchdog overturned its severest criticism on appeal.
How high-fidelity real-world data…
How high-fidelity real-world data is reshaping clinical development, precision medicine, and AI-driven innovation.
AbbVie and J&J are the current…
AbbVie and J&J are the current big spenders when it comes to drug ads in the U.S., but Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk are appearing the most in AI citations organically.
Before Aurobindo can complete its…
Before Aurobindo can complete its acquisition of Pennsylvania generics specialist Lannet, it will have to divest four drugs from the proposed $250 million buyout to resolve anticompetitive concerns, the Federal Trade Commission said.
Could Lowering Inflammation Treat Depression?
Psychiatrists think inflammation may be at the root of some people’s illness. How to treat it is an open question.
Most of those two weeks is not…
Most of those two weeks is not science. It is finding and assembling the data, which is also where most of the AI sold to pharma quietly stalls.
Pfizer’s CFO Dave Denton will…
Pfizer's CFO Dave Denton will officially depart in August, leaving SVP of finance Cecile Guegan to take up his post in the interim.
With interest in automated cell…
With interest in automated cell therapy production beginning to build from about 2016 onward, some 23 companies working in the field have now raised a collective $1.1 billion across 34 rounds through April 24, data
The Thriving Black Market for a Powerful Weight Loss Drug
People are buying what they believe to be retatrutide from WhatsApp groups, Chinese labs and websites selling it “for research purposes.”
Name recognition and “familiarity”…
Name recognition and "familiarity" with Novo Nordisk's oral Wegovy has contributed to its rapid uptake in its battle with Lilly's oral GLP-1 Foundayo, according to Spherix analyst Jim Hickey, who conducts monthly surveys with doctors
Four years after Spero…
Four years after Spero Therapeutics received a complete response letter from the FDA, rejecting its oral treatment for complicated urinary tract infections, the company and its partner GSK have pushed Utebzi across the finish line.
With good-but-not-great updated…
With good-but-not-great updated data on its approved oncology combo of avutometinib plus defactinib in first-line metastatic pancreatic cancer, Verastem Oncology will now channel its primary R&D efforts toward other pipeline darlings.
Less than a month after an…
Less than a month after an approval for Daiichi Sankyo and AstraZeneca’s Datroway for front-line TNBC patients who are not candidates for PD-1/L1 inhibitors, the FDA has handed Gilead’s Trodelvy a rivaling approval that allows
Eighteen months after Novo Nordisk…
Eighteen months after Novo Nordisk purchased a plant in the Czech Republic from Novavax, the Danish drugmaker said it is set to kick off the manufacturing of ingredients for next-generation diabetes and obesity drugs at