Pharma: Page 17


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    Left to clean up after ‘pharma bro’ Shkreli’s arrest, former Turing CEO Ron Tilles reckons with the past

    While Martin Shkreli smirked his way through a public securities fraud investigation, Ron Tilles became interim CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, ready or not. Here’s his story.

    By Nov. 14, 2024
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    From Mr. Mucus to the Super Bowl, pharma tries offbeat marketing strategies

    As the industry’s marketing dollars shift, companies are targeting potential patients in unique ways.

    By Amy Baxter • Nov. 13, 2024
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    Artificial intelligence & machine learning

    After years of excited buzz around the potential of artificial intelligence and machine learning, pharma has begun to realize the true implications and potential value of these technologies.

    By PharmaVoice staff
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    Pharma’s grip on cancer R&D is having unintended consequences

    A pair of studies paint a complicated picture of funding and missed research opportunities.

    By Alexandra Pecci • Nov. 12, 2024
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    Pfizer and Lilly’s telehealth prescribing platforms draw Senate scrutiny for ‘potential fraud’

    As Big Pharma embraces telehealth to sell medicines directly to patients, lawmakers wonder whether the programs skirt anti-kickback rules.

    By Kelly Bilodeau • Nov. 12, 2024
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    Spravato is just the beginning in a new wave of depression meds

    Psychiatry is getting more targeted as drugmakers develop a new range of treatments for depression.

    By Nov. 11, 2024
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    What RFK Jr.’s influence could mean for pharma

    Past comments hint at the changes Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could make across the various sectors of healthcare. 

    By Amy Baxter • Nov. 8, 2024
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    With Trump victorious, biotech industry’s focus turns to his plans for FDA, FTC

    Speculation around pharma dealmaking and the next FDA commissioner has begun.

    By Ned Pagliarulo , Ben Fidler • Nov. 8, 2024
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    Among 2024’s modest M&A action, cancer, immunology and neuroscience deals trickle in

    Dealmaking this year has been largely muted, but M&A trends are pointing to the areas where pharma is placing the most emphasis.

    By Nov. 7, 2024
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    An RNAi renaissance is creating a new generation of startups

    Pioneers like Alnylam Pharmaceuticals have led the RNA interference field for years. Now, a crop of young biotechs is building on that foundation by taking the drugmaking technology in new directions.

    By Gwendolyn Wu • Nov. 7, 2024
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    A diabetes drug, twice rejected, stumbles again — but its developer persists

    After multiple rejections, Lexicon Pharmaceuticals is inching toward an FDA decision date next month for its adjunct type 1 diabetes therapy.   

    By Amy Baxter • Nov. 6, 2024
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    CEO with type 1 diabetes works to deliver ‘world’s first’ functional cure

    Sernova’s technology helped type 1 diabetes patients achieve insulin independence in early- and mid-stage trials.

    By Alexandra Pecci • Nov. 5, 2024
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    Pharma takes aim at a wily foe — the Epstein-Barr virus

    The pernicious and widespread virus has been linked to a range of diseases including MS and long COVID.

    By Kelly Bilodeau • Nov. 4, 2024
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    Pfizer’s quest for market share in the ‘high stakes battleground’ of oral GLP-1s

    Pfizer’s second-to-market goals for its oral GLP-1 drugs underscore big opportunities in the space.

    By Amy Baxter • Nov. 4, 2024
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    A sickle cell cure exists. But patients need more than just gene therapy.

    Almost a year after two historic approvals, Pfizer is pulling a sickle cell disease treatment from the market, and the outlook for patients feels shakier.

    By Alexandra Pecci • Nov. 1, 2024
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    PharmaVoice 100

    2024 PharmaVoice 100s: Cancer Care Visionaries

    Leaders who envision a world without cancer through oncology innovation.

    By Nov. 1, 2024
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    Big Pharma earnings hang hope on the next generation of blockbusters

    Pfizer, J&J, Biogen and Novartis are banking on new products to make up for maturing blockbusters, but future growth is not guaranteed.

    By Oct. 31, 2024
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    2024 PharmaVoice 100s: Clinical Trial Pros

    Experts raising the bar in clinical trial design and collaboration.

    By Amy Baxter • Oct. 31, 2024
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    Backlash builds against Novo’s Catalent takeover

    Roche recently joined naysayers who argue the deal threatens competition in the burgeoning weight loss and diabetes drug market.

    By Amy Baxter • Oct. 30, 2024
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    2024 PharmaVoice 100s: Rare Disease Warriors

    Pharma pros driving drug development and access for patients with high unmet needs. 

    By Oct. 29, 2024
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    How AZ’s respiratory wins are ramping up for a bigger prize in COPD

    As AstraZeneca builds up indications for Fasenra, an ongoing trial will determine whether the respiratory drug can make up for past stumbles in COPD.

    By Oct. 29, 2024
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    Where Big Pharma’s campaign cash is flowing in this election

    Big Pharma CEOs are hedging all bets by supporting both sides of the aisle in the 2024 election.

    By Amy Baxter • Oct. 28, 2024
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    On the front lines of the superbug war, new treatments can’t arrive soon enough

    As antimicrobial resistance rises, researchers are running out of time to fight each new wave of superbugs. And the funding isn’t enough.

    By Kelly Bilodeau • Oct. 28, 2024
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    J&J’s comeback kid Spravato heads for blockbuster status

    After a slow start, the novel esketamine nasal spray for depression is now J&J’s fastest-growing medication.

    By Oct. 25, 2024
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    Why pharma megamergers may become a relic of the past

    Despite pent up M&A demand, FTC scrutiny has had a chilling effect on pharma’s appetite for striking major deals.

    By Kelly Bilodeau • Oct. 24, 2024
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    Dengue is spreading and Sanofi is pulling the U.S. market’s only vaccine. What’s next?

    As Sanofi prepares to halt production on its dengue vaccine in 2026, locally acquired infections in the U.S. are raising the alarm.

    By Alexandra Pecci • Oct. 23, 2024