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Regeneron seeks EUA for COVID-19 antibody as Trump vows to provide it for 'free'

Regeneron has filed for FDA emergency use authorization of its COVID-19 antibody cocktail. President Donald Trump, who received REGN-COV2 after catching the virus, said he has “emergency use authorization all set” and will make the antibody cocktail available for “free.”

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Merck kicks back rights early-phase RSV jab to Moderna

After helping Moderna push a respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine for adults into the clinic, Merck is calling it quits. The Big Pharma is doubling down on its in-house RSV antibody and will see Moderna’s jab through the phase 1 trial before handing back the rights to the program.

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Takeda strikes $1B biobucks deal with Arrowhead for genetic liver disease asset

As Arrowhead continues its turnaround, this election cycle is looking like a new era compared to the last as it strikes a major billion-dollar deal with Takeda.

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Sponsored: Xevinapant’s 3-year data make waves in head and neck cancer at ESMO 2020

Xevinapant in combination with standard cisplatin-based chemoradiation therapy (CRT) reduces the risk of death in high-risk patients with locally advanced head and neck cancer by 50%.. This first-in-class molecule showed it could improve long-term outcomes in hard-to-treat patients, becoming the first in decades to demonstrate a survival benefit in this group.

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Pfizer presents growth hormone data ahead of FDA filing

A phase 3 trial has found Pfizer and Opko Health’s once-weekly growth hormone deficiency treatment imposes less of a burden than the established daily drug Genotropin. The readout comes one year after a separate study found the once-weekly drug is no more effective than Genotropin, handing an advantage to Ascendis Pharma’s rival long-acting treatment TransCon hGH.

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How will Alkermes' schizophrenia prospect affect those on opioids? FDA raises concerns ahead of AdComm

An FDA decision is looming for Alkermes’ ALKS 3831, which adds an opioid antagonist to a well-known antipsychotic to negate the weight gain caused by the latter. An FDA panel will meet Friday to help the agency decide the treatment’s fate—and their major focus will be how the opioid antagonist will affect patients taking opioids like oxycodone.

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CDRH's Shuren warns of the 'canary in the coal mine' in the FDA's COVID-19 response

The FDA has found itself between overwhelming public demand for COVID-19 diagnostics, ventilators and other devices on one side, and a tsunami of companies submitting over 1,200 products for review on the other—and the workload is beginning to take its toll.

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New U.K. report shows up 'precarious' nature of restarting non-COVID-19 research

A new report out this week shows that the U.K. “has been leading the rest of Europe in early stage clinical research,” but the recovery for non-pandemic trials is on a knife-edge.

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