From BIO meeting, Merck CEO backs capitalism, rebuts industry’s critics

In an era of criticism and scrutiny for biopharma companies, executives gathered at the 2019 BIO meeting have debated how the industry can push...

Intra-Cellular’s depression drug goes 1 for 2 in Phase 3 studies

Intra-Cellular's success and failure demonstrate the difficulty of developing psychiatric drugs. Unqualified clinical success in depression is particularly challenging, as high placebo responses can muddy...

FDA’s Woodcock defends accelerated approvals and talks of culture shift in clinical trials

Over more than three decades at the Food and Drug Administration, Janet Woodcock has seen the biotech industry mature from the early days of biologics...

Biotechs dive deeper into targeted cancer research, despite costs

"It could become very challenging for a small biotech company, or even a pharma company, to cover that part of a clinical trial test,"...
Wednesday's settlement follows last month's conviction of five former Insys executives, including the company's founder John Kapoor, for their involvement in bribing physicians to...
The RDC prosecution could serve as a warning to the drug distribution industry, potentially impacting litigation against the three largest players: McKesson, AmerisourceBergen and...
While BioMarin and Spark remain out in front, Sangamo's data appear strong enough to warrant consideration of the biotech's therapy in the discussion of...

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Gilead firms up path to market for key arthritis...

A filing this year for filgotinib could set up a potential market launch in 2020, which would be one to two years earlier than...

MacroGenics dives as breast cancer drug shows small improvement

MacroGenics stock took a beating Tuesday, dropping far more than any other biotech on the iShares NASDAQ Biotechnology Index as the ASCO conference closed....

Zolgensma set a new drug pricing bar. Insurers show...

Zolgensma (onasemnogene abeparvovec) wasn't the first gene therapy approved in the U.S. That milestone belongs to Spark Therapeutics' Luxturna (voretigene neparvovec), a treatment for...

AbbVie deal for Allergan not about the taxes, thanks...

AbbVie CEO Rick Gonzalez finally achieved the overseas acquisition that he sought five years ago. But his deal for Allergan comes too late to...

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The administration faces increasing pressure to release a concrete healthcare plan as Democratic presidential candidates are eager to keep the national conversation focused...

Roche cancer drug the 3rd approved for pan-tumor use

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Novo faces shareholder suit over insulin sales disclosures

Novo is best known for its insulin products like Levemir (insulin detemir) and Tresiba (insulin degludec), as well as other diabetes treatments like...

Celgene wins approval for drug key to Bristol buyout

Approval of Inrebic, which was previously known as fedratinib, is the first domino to fall in Bristol-Myers bet on Celgene's product pipeline. 

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