[ad_1] Bottle of Vaccine for booster shot for Smallpox and Monkeypox MPXV. Angelp | Istock | Getty Images The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday urged gay men and other individuals at high risk from mpox to get fully vaccinated to prevent a summer resurgence of the virus. The CDC’s call for those…
[ad_1] Robert Galbraith | Reuters Horizon Therapeutics expects its $27.8 billion sale to Amgen to close as early as the end of the third quarter, earlier than previously planned — if the Federal Trade Commission’s attempt to block the deal fails — according to a document filed Thursday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The…
[ad_1] New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy Scott Mlyn | CNBC New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Wednesday said he would consider defying the Supreme Court and continue to provide mifepristone if the court rules in favor of a ban on the abortion pill. When asked if the state would prescribe mifepristone after such a ruling,…
[ad_1] A logo for Pfizer is displayed on a monitor on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange, July 29, 2019. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Pfizer plans to raise $31 billion through a debt offering to fund its proposed acquisition of cancer drug maker Seagen, for what would be its largest takeover since 2009,…
[ad_1] Mifepristone, the first medication in a medical abortion, is prepared for a patient at Alamo Women’s Clinic in Carbondale, Illinois, April 20, 2023. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters A federal appeals court will hear arguments Wednesday afternoon in a closely watched lawsuit that seeks to pull the abortion pill mifepristone from the U.S. market. The…
[ad_1] The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday filed a lawsuit seeking to block drug giant Amgen‘s $27.8 billion acquisition of Horizon Therapeutics, arguing that the deal would “stifle competition” in the pharmaceutical industry. The FTC said that the deal would allow Amgen to “entrench the monopoly positions” of two of Horizon’s fast-growing medications: the thyroid…
[ad_1] A person walks next to the Google Cloud logo at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain February 27, 2023. Nacho Doce | Reuters Google Cloud on Tuesday launched two new AI-powered tools that aim to help biotech and pharmaceutical companies accelerate drug discovery and advance precision medicine. One tool, called the Target…
[ad_1] Blood sample for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) test Jarun011 | Istock | Getty Images U.S. Food and Drug Administration staff on Tuesday said Pfizer’s vaccine that protects infants from respiratory syncytial virus has “generally favorable” safety data. The FDA staff made the conclusion in briefing documents ahead of a meeting on Thursday, when a…
[ad_1] As biopharma investors follow the latest buzz around advancements in clinical research, they may be under-appreciating opportunities in neurology, psychiatry and genetic medicine, according to a report from Oppenheimer. Specifically, analyst Jay Olson called out companies such as Biogen , Karuna Therapeutics and Crispr Therapeutics , among others. “Our analysis shows Genetic Medicine and…
[ad_1] A woman receives a booster dose of the Moderna coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at a vaccination centre in Antwerp, Belgium, February 1, 2022. Johanna Geron | Reuters Patients are now enrolling in an early stage clinical trial to test a universal flu vaccine based on messenger RNA technology, the National Institutes of Health announced…
