[ad_1] Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Shares of Moderna fell Monday as Wall Street chewed over new trial results on the personalized cancer vaccine it is developing with Merck. Merck’s shares were relatively flat. The experimental mRNA vaccine, when combined with Merck’s blockbuster drug Keytruda, cut the risk of recurrence of skin cancer…
[ad_1] U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Friday temporarily blocked lower court rulings that imposed tighter restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone. U.S. Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of the U.S. Northern District of Texas suspended the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone last week. related investing news The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals…
[ad_1] U.S. abortion pill providers are scrambling to make backup plans as the Supreme Court decides whether to keep restrictions on the key drug mifepristone. Some in-person clinics in New York, California and Kansas will offer mifepristone for now, but are preparing to provide an alternative abortion pill if a subsequent decision essentially bans the…
[ad_1] In this photo illustration, packages of Mifepristone tablets are displayed at a family planning clinic on April 13, 2023 in Rockville, Maryland. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images The Justice Department and the abortion pill distributor Danco Laboratories on Friday asked the Supreme Court to block an order that threatens access to mifepristone, an escalation…
[ad_1] There’s a global investing opportunity in a corner of health care that is both “significant and underappreciated,” according to Barclays. The segment is clinical nutrition, which the bank defined as an area focused on patients who need specific supplemental nutrition because of chronic health care conditions or because they are unable to eat. Barclays…
[ad_1] The Florida House of Representatives on Thursday passed legislation that would ban most abortions after six weeks, when many people don’t know they are pregnant. The bill passed by a vote of 70 to 40, largely along party lines. The measure now goes to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is expected to sign it…
[ad_1] Mifepristone (Mifeprex), one of the two drugs used in a medication abortion, is displayed at the Women’s Reproductive Clinic, which provides legal medication abortion services, in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, on June 15, 2022. Robyn Beck | AFP | Getty Images A U.S. district judge on Thursday said access to the abortion pill mifepristone…
[ad_1] A messy legal fight over the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone poses risks to the biopharma industry that go beyond the single drug. If a subsequent decision tosses out the pill’s approval, it could potentially stifle innovation in the sector and deter investments in the development of life-changing drugs,…
[ad_1] In this 2018 photo, mifepristone and misoprostol pills are provided at a Carafem clinic for medication abortions in Skokie, Illinois. Erin Hooley | Tribune News Service | Getty Images A federal appeals court has allowed the abortion pill mifepristone to remain on the U.S. market for now, but it imposed major restrictions on the…
[ad_1] A federal appeals court late on Wednesday blocked part of a ruling issued last week by a Trump-appointed judge that endangers access to the abortion pill mifepristone. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the Justice Department’s emergency request to put on hold the part of the decision issued by U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk that…
