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Jan 23, 2025

RFK Jr.'s referral fees in litigation over Merck's Gardasil raise conflict-of-interest questions: reports


AstraZeneca invests $570M to grow in Canada, plans to add 700 jobs


Masimo lands new CEO from BD's patient monitoring division


Exact Sciences taps into TV dramas for tongue-in-cheek new Cologuard campaign


JPM25: As Servier cements oncology bona fides, US chief stresses importance of ‘staying authentic’


Biogen research team hit by layoffs as company shifts resources to external opportunities


Roche nets clearances for sexually transmitted infection tests at the point of care


Sticky, sticky, sticky: Neomorph tacks on another Big Pharma glue degrader deal with $1.6B AbbVie pact

 

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RFK Jr.'s referral fees in litigation over Merck's Gardasil raise conflict-of-interest questions: reports

Department of Health and Human Services secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to continue to receive referral fees from a law firm that is suing Merck over the marketing and sale of one of its vaccines. RFK Jr.’s plans raise conflict-of-interest questions as he is seeking confirmation to run an agency that regulates vaccines.
 

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AstraZeneca invests $570M to grow in Canada, plans to add 700 jobs

AstraZeneca is expanding its boot print in Canada with a $570 million investment designed to create 700 jobs.

Masimo lands new CEO from BD's patient monitoring division

The medtech has tapped Katie Szyman for the role, who served as head of Edwards' critical care business, which was sold last year to BD.

Exact Sciences taps into TV dramas for 'tongue-in-cheek' Cologuard campaign

With a large portion of people aged 45 and older prone to putting off or completely avoiding recommended colon cancer screenings, Exact Sciences is pitching its noninvasive at-home Cologuard test as a way to “skip the drama.”

JPM25: As Servier cements oncology bona fides, US chief stresses importance of 'staying authentic'

Some six and a half years since its debut, Servier’s U.S. arm has made good on its oncology growth ambitions, while managing to stay true to its patient-centric ethos along the way.

Biogen research team hit by layoffs as company shifts resources to external opportunities

Jane Grogan, Ph.D., took over Biogen’s research department in the wake of large-scale layoffs. Now, a little more than a year later, she’s making cuts of her own.

Roche nets clearances for sexually transmitted infection tests at the point of care

The company’s cobas liat system received a new 510(k) clearance from the FDA, as well as a waiver from CLIA mandates requiring that certain clinical tests be analyzed within a qualified laboratory.

Sticky, sticky, sticky: Neomorph tacks on another Big Pharma glue degrader deal with $1.6B AbbVie pact

Neomorph is building out its supply of Big Pharma partnerships, this time stamping down an option-to-license pact with AbbVie that centers around the biotech’s molecular glue platform.

Preeclampsia nonprofit puts new spin on old drug to close maternal health equity gap

The Preeclampsia Foundation has found a formula for closing the maternal health equity gap: Mix one part equity-forward preeclampsia education with one part low-dose aspirin prophylaxis and voilà, you have GAP—SPIRIN, a campaign the nonprofit believes can address a persistent health inequity.

Analysts 'highly encouraged' by TREM2 reduction seen in Vigil's phase 1 Alzheimer's data

Vigil Neuroscience has reported early clinical data on its Alzheimer’s disease candidate, positioning the biotech to advance its small molecule in the footsteps of AbbVie and Alector’s failed rival antibody.

Teva's multiple sclerosis stalwart Copaxone gets FDA boxed warning for anaphylaxis risk

More than 80 cases of treatment-associated anaphylaxis have been reported since 1996, according to the FDA's safety notice on Wednesday. The warning also applies to generics, including Sandoz's Glatopa.

GSK, Merck and Pfizer in Ab&B's sights as Chinese vaccine biotech files for IPO

Ab&B Bio-Tech has joined the stacked roster of biotechs queuing up to go public in Hong Kong, filing the paperwork for an IPO to fund development of vaccines that could compete with shots from companies including GSK, Merck & Co. and Pfizer.
 
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