Can AstraZeneca make good on its promise?
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The surprising outperformance of a new drug against existing competitors, and other biotech updates
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Biohaven’s autoimmune drug disappoints, and other biotech news updates from the week
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STAT+: Clinical lab trade group sues FDA over plan to regulate lab-developed tests
A group representing clinical labs across the country sued the Food and Drug Administration on…
NIH-funded clinical trials often miss racial, gender diversity enrollment goals, report finds
WASHINGTON — Clinical trials that the National Institutes of Health funds often enroll fewer Black…
Wegovy linked to lower risk of alcohol use disorder in real-world study
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Biotech’s most interesting fundraisings from the last week
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More tumult at BIO amid the company’s fourth CEO in four years
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Louisiana legislature approves bill classifying abortion pills as controlled dangerous substances
BATON ROUGE — Two abortion-inducing drugs could soon be reclassified as controlled and dangerous substances…
In light of H5N1 outbreak, U.S. in talks with mRNA vaccine makers on bird flu
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Fresh scrutiny of post-Covid spending reignites yearslong tension over emergency stockpiles
WASHINGTON — For four years, Democrats and Republicans have routinely clashed over funding to curb…
STAT+: FDA poised to publish guidelines for clinical trial diversity
The Food and Drug Administration is poised to tell drug and medical device makers how…
Maryland takes first steps to cap drug costs
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Lilly doubles down on radiopharma
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STAT+: PBM executives invited to testify before House panel
WASHINGTON — Executives from the three major pharmacy benefit manager companies have been invited to…
STAT+: BIO to announce reorganization, senior leaders expected to depart
WASHINGTON — The Biotechnology Innovation Organization on Monday is announcing a significant restructuring accompanied by…
STAT+: Bernie Sanders may have reached the limits of his pharma pressure campaign
WASHINGTON — Bernie Sanders is figuring out just how far bullying drugmakers can take him….
AstraZeneca antibody reduced Covid-19 risk in immunocompromised
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Second House panel advances two-year telehealth extension
WASHINGTON — A House subcommittee on Thursday advanced legislation that would extend some pandemic-era telehealth…
Blackstone wants in on red-hot immunology market
The need-to-know this morning Biogen and Ionis Pharmaceuticals are ending their development of an experimental drug for ALS based on…
STAT+: WuXi Biologics execs register to lobby as Congress comes for the company
WASHINGTON — WuXi Biologics executives have joined the lobbying fray in the lead-up to a…
HHS suspends federal funding for EcoHealth Alliance
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has suspended federal grants issued to EcoHealth Alliance, the infectious…
Leqembi gets closer to being offered as an injection
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STAT+: The White House hikes tariffs on Chinese medical products
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration announced Tuesday that it’s raising taxes on a range of…
Is Novavax a new meme stock?
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USDA, FDA turf battles hamper responses to outbreaks like H5N1 bird flu
WASHINGTON — On a bright June day in 2018, one of the nation’s top regulators…
Federal officials will fund farms’ protective measures to contain H5N1 bird flu
WASHINGTON — The federal government will provide livestock farms as much as $28,000 apiece to…
The public wants Medicare to cover obesity drugs
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STAT+: No, alcohol isn’t good for you. Will new dietary guidelines be shaped more by health or industry interests?
In 1995, when Marion Nestle was on the committee drafting the Dietary Guidelines for Americans,…
Yet another big financing round in immunology
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STAT+: Drug supplies for millions would be jeopardized by U.S. crackdown on China biopharma industry, trade group says
U.S. legislation that would sever ties with Chinese drugmakers would jeopardize the drug supply for…
Pharma has over $500B in capital for deals
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STAT+: House panel eyes PBM reform to pay for telehealth extensions
A new bill set to be considered on Wednesday by the House Ways & Means…
Vertex starts gene therapy Casgevy in five patients
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Merck may have a competition for ever-scarce BCG
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ICER casts doubt on Sarepta’s DMD gene therapy
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STAT+: Senate drug shortage bill would pay hospitals bonuses for good contracting practices
WASHINGTON — The Senate Finance Committee has drafted a bipartisan bill to mitigate drug shortages…
Statehouses are a hotbed of tobacco lobbying and legislation
WASHINGTON — Around the country, statehouses from Harrisburg, Penn. to Tallahassee, Fla., are being flooded…
STAT+: Lawmakers unlikely to permanently extend telehealth flexibilities this year
WASHINGTON — Members of Congress appear poised to advance another short-term extension of pandemic-era telehealth…
STAT+: Health economist marks up UnitedHealth CEO’s Senate hearing on the Change Healthcare cyberattack
For lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, Wednesday’s congressional hearings about the Change Healthcare…
Republicans, concerned about dairy industry, urge calm about H5N1 bird flu
WASHINGTON — Republican lawmakers have one big message on the avian flu outbreak in cows:…
The biotech news you need to read this morning
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STAT+: DEA reverses a policy to avert morphine shortages
WASHINGTON — The Drug Enforcement Agency is reversing a regulation that had been expected to…
STAT+: Lawmakers grill UnitedHealth CEO on Change cyberattack. ‘Your company let the country down’
On Wednesday, UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty appeared before Congress to answer for what lawmakers called…
Lawmakers, as part of ‘lab leak’ Covid inquiry, press to bar EcoHealth from federal research funds
WASHINGTON — A House panel is pushing for a virus research group and its director…
The latest government crackdowns on biotech you need to know
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DEA will move to reclassify marijuana in a historic shift, AP sources say
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, The…
FDA wants to hear your thoughts on advisory committees
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Backers of menthol cigarette ban vow to keep up the fight, but concede it will be a long battle
WASHINGTON — Advocates of a federal ban on menthol cigarettes have spent the better part…
Expanded methadone access: giving patients greater choice
WASHINGTON — Nicholas Voyles, executive director of the Indiana Recovery Alliance, ended up missing his…