Tariffs, pricing, backroom deals — how pharma can navigate wildly shifting policies

Gaming out new regulations and various potential outcomes will help keep companies on more solid footing.

By Kelly Bilodeau • Nov. 3, 2025

How Trump’s do-or-die agenda is impacting Big Pharma’s CEO chatter

Among tariffs, pricing policies and ongoing negotiations, pharma leaders can’t help but address their dealings with the Trump administration in third-quarter earnings reports.

By Michael Gibney • Oct. 30, 2025

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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

Massachusetts biotech hub is limping amid layoffs and low investment

The state’s difficulties in the last year are indicative of wider industry problems during a time of market trepidation, as optimism gives way to resilience.

By Michael Gibney • Oct. 23, 2025

Why a treatment older than the FDA is getting new regulatory scrutiny

MAHA-aligned patients and providers are pushing back to ensure access to an animal-derived thyroid hormone treatment.

By Kelly Bilodeau • Oct. 20, 2025

Pregnant women, long excluded from drug trials, are back in the spotlight

The White House has raised concerns around women’s health, but R&D on pregnant and breastfeeding women is still lacking.

By Meagan Parrish • Oct. 17, 2025

Ultra-rare diseases got a boost from recent FDA approval signalling more regulatory flexibility

Stealth BioTherapeutics’ FDA win could help build momentum in the broader rare disease space.

By Alexandra Pecci • Oct. 15, 2025

Dr. Peter Marks, former top FDA vaccine official, joins Eli Lilly

Six months after his abrupt resignation as CBER director, Marks has been hired to run discovery and infectious disease work at the big Indianapolis drugmaker.

By Jonathan Gardner • Oct. 8, 2025

As setbacks plague other companies, MindMed becomes a front-runner in the psychedelics race

Challenges faced by other drugmakers have reinforced, rather than discouraged, MindMed’s approach to psychedelic drug R&D for anxiety and other disorders.

By Alexandra Pecci • Oct. 7, 2025

Trump administration could lower drug prices by making other nations pay more

The Trump administration often touts its efforts to lower prices in the U.S. by matching what other countries pay, but there’s more to this policy story.

By Kelly Bilodeau • Oct. 6, 2025

AstraZeneca’s at-home flu vaccine is a breakthrough that could pave the way for others

FluMist Home could be a test case for at-home vaccines against a backdrop of challenging regulatory shifts.

By Alexandra Pecci • Oct. 1, 2025

Top pharma industry conferences in 2026

Where pharma leaders will converge, discuss and navigate the industry’s shifting landscape in 2026.

By Meagan Parrish • Oct. 1, 2025

Is pharma’s IRA pricing battle running out of steam?

Despite recent court losses, the legal tides could still turn in the industry’s favor.

By Meagan Parrish • Sept. 26, 2025

With DTC ads under fire, pharma companies need to pivot

An executive order from HHS doesn’t prohibit direct outreach to consumers, but drugmakers will need to rethink their outreach strategies.

By Kelly Bilodeau • Sept. 22, 2025

3 FDA approval firsts that could be around the corner

Several market-altering decisions are on the agency’s docket for the rest of 2025.

By Meagan Parrish • Sept. 19, 2025

At Senate hearing, lawmakers express dissatisfaction with RFK Jr.’s vaccine moves

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced criticism Thursday even from Republican lawmakers over changes to federal vaccine policy as well as a leadership crisis at the CDC.

By Delilah Alvarado , Jonathan Gardner • Sept. 5, 2025

International appeal: Europe and UK lure US scientists with financial incentives

With slashed budgets and decimated research programs, American scientists are increasingly looking for career opportunities abroad.

By Alexandra Pecci • Sept. 4, 2025

Why drugmakers may need to borrow from quantum theory to confront tariff and pricing threats

With so many unknowns surrounding regulatory and policy shifts, pharma companies might need to consider fundamental changes to how they operate, a Deloitte analyst said.

By Michael Gibney • Sept. 3, 2025

FDA approves updated COVID boosters, but narrows use

In a post on X, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy said the FDA has cleared vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax for use in "high risk" individuals.

By Delilah Alvarado • Updated Aug. 27, 2025

Why an FDA decision for a new drug could ripple through the ultra-rare disease space

All eyes are on Stealth BioTherapeutics as it awaits a long-delayed approval for its first-in-class treatment for Barth syndrome.

By Alexandra Pecci • Aug. 26, 2025

FDA’s new accelerated pathway could open pharma up to risks, as well as benefits

Faster review times will leave drugmakers vulnerable to litigation, while new Trump administration priorities add more uncertainty in the drug approval process.

By Amy Baxter • Aug. 25, 2025

MAHA leaders may take aim at pharma DTC advertising

RFK Jr. has his sights set on increasing advertising enforcement against pharmas, but may not come down as hard on the industry as previously thought.

By Amy Baxter • Aug. 20, 2025

Despite FDA ruling, compounded GLP-1s are still giving Novo and Lilly headaches on the market

Copycat weight loss drugs were supposed to be pulled from the market, but pharmacies have found a loophole. 

By Amy Baxter • Aug. 18, 2025

With scrapped mRNA funding, a vaccine maker finds a silver lining

While mRNA is suffering the brunt of the MAHA movement with $500 million in funding cuts, other vaccine makers could fill some of that void.

By Michael Gibney • Aug. 14, 2025

With FDA PreCheck, drugmakers may get a manufacturing boost

The newly announced program targeting domestic manufacturing is the latest Trump administration move to ramp up drugmaking in the U.S.

By Amy Baxter • Aug. 13, 2025

Puerto Rico’s ongoing journey from manufacturing hub to innovation enterprise

Biotechs are coming to the island as tariffs threaten overseas drug exports, and finding Puerto Rico is more than just a leading manufacturing hub.  

By Michael Gibney • Aug. 12, 2025