Fierce Pharma

JANUARY 29, 2024

The start of the new year doesn’t seem to have dulled the zeal of Pfizer’s global cost-cutting campaign, which has already left hundreds of jobs in its wake. | Come mid-February, Pfizer will lay off some 52 employees at a facility in South San Francisco, according to a recent Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act alert. The site is the former headquarters of Global Blood Therapeutics.

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MedCity News

JANUARY 31, 2024

We and our collective organizations’ providers have treated 10,000’s of Americans, who suffer from obesity and/or Type 2 diabetes with GLP-1 drugs. And we believe we have important observations to share.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JANUARY 29, 2024

At the JP Morgan Healthcare conference, Merck (MSD) indicated its eagerness to continue to establish its place in the immunological space.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 30, 2024

From today, a new feature added to the NHS App used in the UK will allow millions of people to submit and view prescriptions, in a bid to save time for patients and doctors. The digital prescription function, which does away with the need for paper scrip, was put through its paces in a pilot trial last year involving a million users of the app, now being used by three-quarters of the UK population or around 33.5 million people.

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Fierce Pharma

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Mark your calendars, oncology drug and CAR-T therapy developers. | Mark your calendars, oncology drug and CAR-T therapy developers. The FDA has decided on a date for a highly anticipated advisory committee meeting for Bristol Myers' Abecma and J&J's Carvykti.

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MedCity News

JANUARY 28, 2024

As the food as medicine movement grows, some payers and healthcare organizations are carving out specific roles and teams dedicated to food and nutrition. Doing so can be beneficial considering the significant impact diet can have on health outcomes.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A phase 2 trial of Lundbeck’s alpha-synuclein-targeting drug Lu AF82422 has failed to reach statistical significance in patients with multiple system atrophy (MSA), although the company says there are encouraging “signals of efficacy” in the data.

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Fierce Pharma

JANUARY 31, 2024

More than two years after Aduhelm's controversial and ill-fated FDA accelerated approval, Bi | Biogen is discontinuing its first Alzheimer's disease therapy, Aduhelm, after walking a rocky path. The company is taking a $60 million charge, halting sales and terminating a confirmatory trial.

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MedCity News

JANUARY 30, 2024

Even just a year ago, we couldn’t fathom a cure for cancer. Now, we can. Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the healthcare industry, with its ability to process and analyze vast amounts of data. Cancer treatment is one area that could benefit significantly from AI, as it can aid in early detection, precise diagnosis, and personalized treatment plans.

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European Pharmaceutical Review

JANUARY 29, 2024

N-Nitrosamines By far the biggest issue bedevilling industry during 2023 was the continuing N-nitrosamine contamination saga, which was covered in the third issue of EPR 2023. 1 Some five years after the initial NDMA (N-nitrosodimethylamine) contamination issue 2 initially affecting valsartan drug substance, then other active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), eg, sartans, ranitidine, metformin, etc; the toxic short alkyl chain N-nitrosamine issue appears, if not resolved, then well on the way t

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 29, 2024

Spanish drugmaker Grifols has hit back at hedge fund Gotham City Research, which claimed it had fraudulently manipulated its financial reporting, with a lawsuit filed in New York. The complaint has been brought against Gotham City and co-founders Daniel Yu and Cyrus de Weck, along with other defendants, and accuses them of being “predatory short sellers…who illicitly profit from their rigged short-and-distort schemes.

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Fierce Pharma

JANUARY 29, 2024

New legislation aimed at blocking a group of Chinese biopharma firms from tapping into U.S. federal funding has sent shares tumbling in recent days. | New legislation aimed at blocking a group of Chinese biopharma firms from tapping into U.S. federal funding has sent shares tumbling in recent days. WuXi Bio, for its part, says it's not affiliated with the military in China.

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MedCity News

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

A new era in maternal care is emerging with the advent of maternity care management platforms. Innovative organizations are centralizing the coordination of all patient care aspects, seamlessly integrating with providers’ electronic health records, existing workflows, and health information exchanges.

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Pharmaceutical Commerce

JANUARY 29, 2024

In an interview with Pharma Commerce Associate Editor Don Tracy, Ron Lanton, Partner, Lanton Law PLLC, discusses recent moves by CVS and Express Scripts to follow Mark Cuban's drug plus model.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

Bristol-Myers Squibb is getting closer to offering a subcutaneous version of its cancer immunotherapy Opdivo to patients after it matched the current intravenous formulation in a head-to-head trial in kidney cancer.

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Fierce Pharma

JANUARY 31, 2024

Beaten to the punch by Pfizer in developing a vaccine for COVID, GSK has regained some of its lost luster as a vaccine powerhouse with its advancement of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) shot Arex | GSK's RSV vaccine Arexvy generated $1.5 billion in sales in 2023 compared to $890 million for Pfizer's Abrysvo. But the British pharma major says that the successful launch represents just one round of a boxing match, and much is still to be decided, especially with Moderna expected to joi

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MedCity News

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Alto Neuroscience will apply the IPO proceeds toward clinical tests of its psychiatric drugs in patients who exhibit certain biomarkers. The company’s two most advanced programs are depression drugs in mid-stage development.

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PharmaVoice

JANUARY 31, 2024

The president of L.A.’s City of Hope Cancer Center believes the current state of cancer treatments can be greatly improved with a peek into the gut’s many mysteries.

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What will the future hold for clinical research? A recent draft from the FDA provides valuable insight. In "Optimizing the Dosage of Human Prescription Drugs and Biological Products for the Treatment of Oncologic Diseases," the FDA notes that "targeted therapies demonstrate different dose-response relationships compared to cytotoxic chemotherapy, such that doses below the Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD) may have similar efficacy to the MTD but with fewer toxicities.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 31, 2024

Novartis ends development of Tim3 antibody sabatolimab in myelodysplastic syndromes after failed phase 3 trial.

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Fierce Pharma

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

With Merck reporting a whopping $25 billion sales haul for | With Merck reporting a whopping $25 billion sales haul for Keytruda on Thursday, the PD-1 cancer superstar appears to be the world’s top-selling drug in 2023. Keytruda looks set to take over the top spot from Pfizer and BioNTech’s Comirnaty, which ruled the previous two years, scoring sales of $55.9 billion in 2022 and $55.1 billion in 2021.

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MedCity News

JANUARY 28, 2024

While pharmaceutical companies continue to raise list prices year-over-year, we work behind the scenes to fight the trend by driving competition, negotiating with drugmakers and incentivizing the use of less expensive medicines that deliver the same clinical value.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JANUARY 29, 2024

The rapid sequencing of the SARS-CoV-2 and the subsequent development of mRNA vaccines led to the authorisation of the first of these vaccines in late 2020.

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Integrity Solutions

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Is sales still a viable profession today? Is it something needed or that people even want to do? Many who are currently in sales positions or are considering a role in sales are beginning to question what the job really means today and whether it’s one they can be proud of — especially when it feels like their whole purpose can feel like it’s to pressure or coerce buyers into doing something.

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Fierce Pharma

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

As AbbVie slogs through sharp revenue declines for Humira, the company is looking to the immunology light at the end of the tunnel. | Sales of Humira—which once sat pretty as the world’s best-selling drug—plunged nearly 41% to $3.3 billion in the third quarter.

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MedCity News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Despite Cigna and Humana ditching their pursuits to combine in December, one industry expert believes there’s still a chance after Cigna announced its plan to sell its Medicare Advantage business to Health Care Service Corp.

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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Our round-up of recent biotech financings is headed by a $250 million public offering for late clinical-stage biotech Vera Therapeutics, with an initial public offering (IPO) filed by CAR-T specialist Kyverna and private rounds for Eyconis, COUR Pharmaceuticals, Basking Biosciences, Enterprise Therapeutics, Halia Therapeutics and NeoPhore.

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European Pharmaceutical Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Orano Med (a subsidiary of the Orano Group), has begun to build a new manufacturing site for targeted alpha therapies (TAT) for oncology indications. The ATLab (Alpha Therapy Laboratory) Valenciennes in Onnaing, France, will produce lead-212 radioligand therapies. TAT [targeted alpha therapies] is one of the most potent therapeutic payloads against cancer cells” According to Orano Med, TAT is “one of the most potent therapeutic payloads against cancer cells” As such, these trea

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Fierce Pharma

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In his first earnings call as Bristol Myers Squibb’s CEO, Chris Boerner laid out his plan to quickly navigate the company through a period filled with patent cliffs and new government-man | In his first earnings call as Bristol Myers Squibb’s CEO, Chris Boerner laid out his plan to quickly navigate the company through a transition period filled with patent cliffs and new government-mandated pricing pressure.

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MedCity News

JANUARY 29, 2024

Science 37 rode the trends of Covid-19 technologies and SPAC mergers to a more than $1 billion valuation. But revenue for the decentralized clinical trials software firm stopped growing, and it’s now going private valued at just $38 million.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 31, 2024

AbbVie’s CD20xCD3 bispecific antibody Tepkinly has been recommended by NICE for NHS use as a treatment for relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), an aggressive and fast-growing form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Tepkinly (epcoritamab) – the first medicine to emerge from AbbVie’s $3.9 billion alliance with Genmab signed in 2020 – can be used to treat adults with DLBCL whose cancer has returned or has not responded to at least two previous systemic treatments.

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