| Today’s Big NewsSep 10, 2024 |
| By Conor Hale The tech giant plans to add sleep apnea detection to its Apple Watch as well as bring long-anticipated over-the-counter hearing aid tech to its AirPods. |
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By James Waldron The recent decision to merge Genentech’s two cancer departments was made for “scientific reasons,” according to executives. |
By Fraiser Kansteiner Late Monday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 306-81 in favor of the BIOSECURE Act, which was introduced in January and seeks to halt federal contracts with five named Chinese life-sci companies: WuXi AppTec, WuXi Biologics, BGI Group, MGI and Complete Genomics. |
By Darren Incorvaia Carisma Therapeutics has been working for years to develop cell therapies using macrophages, immune cells that are better at attacking solid tumors than the T cells that currently dominate the industry. In a partnership with Moderna, now expanded to two undisclosed autoimmune targets, the biotech hopes to seriously simplify cell therapy by bypassing the need to culture patient cells out of the body. |
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By Nick Paul Taylor Physicians consider more than what a drug does when making prescribing decisions. They also look at who is behind the therapy. That is the conclusion of a WE Communications survey that found physicians are influenced by disease-specific leadership and corporate reputation when choosing which drug to use. |
By Nick Paul Taylor Viridian Therapeutics’ phase 3 thyroid eye disease clinical trial has hit its primary and secondary endpoints. But with Amgen’s Tepezza already on the market, the data leave scope to question whether the biotech has done enough to differentiate its asset and unseat the incumbent. |
By Conor Hale Au revoir, Abiomed. Goodbye, DePuy. Bon voyage, Biosense. So long, Cerenovus. Adios, Ethicon. |
By Zoey Becker The city scored its own deal after opting not to join in on Teva's $4.25 billion national opioid settlement. |
By Zoey Becker Gilead is paying $35 million to access Genesis' tech. The deal covers three targets, with an option for more down the line. |
By Gabrielle Masson On the heels of disappointing low-dose data results, Zealand Pharma is back with separate findings for its GLP-1/GLP-2 receptor dual agonist that have emboldened the biotech to push the candidate into phase 2b development. |
By Ben Adams AbbVie’s migraine drug Ubrelvy (ubrogepant) is slated to be the top-selling drug in the migraine space in 2033 across the seven bigger pharma markets as total spend across those countries are set to rake in $16.4 billion. |
By Joseph Keenan Two Japanese drugmakers and another in India were hit with Form 483s from the FDA following inspections that uncovered issues ranging from a lack of sanitary procedures to improper data collection and monitoring. |
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