STAT
MAY 23, 2024
You’d think if there were a vaccine that would prevent tens of thousands of cases of cancer a year, people would want it for themselves and for their kids. But new data being released Thursday ahead of the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology show that just isn’t the case.
Pharma Times
MAY 23, 2024
High-grade gliomas are rare, malignant tumours which account for up to 12% of all childhood brain tumours
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STAT
MAY 23, 2024
Burnout is a growing crisis in health care: More than 50% of health care professionals report symptoms of it. Addressing the trauma they face at work can help. Halting burnout straddles the tension between addressing the individual factors versus the organizational factors behind it. It was once believed that burnout was related to health workers’ inability to cope with the natural stresses of their job.
Pharma Times
MAY 23, 2024
The partnership will provide six MRC clinical fellows with industry placement opportunities
Speaker: Jennifer Hill
Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.
STAT
MAY 23, 2024
An independent panel of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration recommended the agency approve Guardant Health’s blood-based colon cancer detection test. If the agency follows the recommendation, it will clear an early hurdle for the test’s broader adoption. The expert panel spent hours listening to presentations from Guardant, the FDA, and members of the public before voting on the screening test, called Shield.
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STAT
MAY 23, 2024
I’ve been on three sides of the health care equation: I’ve beaten stage 4 colorectal cancer, I’m the mother of a son with an ultra-rare genetic abnormality, and I now work as the chief patient officer for Parexel, one of the world’s largest clinical research organizations. Having seen what people go through as they navigate the health care system and try to participate in clinical trials, I know that the road to participation must be smoother and easier — and n
BioPharma Dive
MAY 23, 2024
Clinical trial abstracts posted by ASCO Thursday give a peek at anticipated datasets from Immunocore, Merck & Co., J&J and Arcus Biosciences.
STAT
MAY 23, 2024
Stroke prevalence has been climbing over the past decade, reversing a steady decline among all Americans while rising the most among adults under 65, a new CDC analysis reports. Strokes still strike more adults older than 65, but the increase at younger ages mirrors another recent turnaround: rates of heart failure deaths, which had been dipping, are rising the most in adults under 45.
The Pharmacist
MAY 23, 2024
NHS England must provide a full list of organisations with available designated prescribing practitioners (DPPs) before placement information is released to students, the Company Chemists’ Association (CCA) has urged. The association warned that without such a list outlining where to source DPPs, community pharmacy businesses could be ‘forced to offer fewer foundation placements than they […] The post NHSE urged to provide full list of available DPPs appeared first on The Pharmacist.
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STAT
MAY 23, 2024
Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today? Sign up to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. Good morning. Wall Street had a big reaction to H5N1 bird flu news yesterday. Was it warranted? We’ll discuss that today.
BioPharma Dive
MAY 23, 2024
After laying off staff late last year, Orna is expanding through the purchase of ReNAgade Therapeutics, which was built around technology designed to more effectively deliver RNA-based medicines.
STAT
MAY 23, 2024
Thoughts about Cytokinetics after Wednesday night’s financing announcement : 1. Management is raising $500 million at $51 per share, when the stock was at $45 per share before the aficamtem study readout in December. That’s shocking. Somehow, management has not only removed all the M&A premium from the stock, but much or most of aficamtem’s value, too. 2.
pharmaphorum
MAY 23, 2024
Merck KGaA has agreed to a $600m deal to buy Mirus Bio, a specialist in transfection reagents used in the production of cell and gene therapies.
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STAT
MAY 23, 2024
An early-stage clinical trial of a radiopharmaceutical drug developed by Johnson & Johnson showed some signs of efficacy in prostate cancer patients, newly released data show, but four participants in the trial died. The drug, JNJ-6420, is designed to treat metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer by delivering radioactive isotopes directly to cancer cells.
Pharmaceutical Technology
MAY 23, 2024
AstraZeneca has entered into a worldwide licence and option agreement with Nona Biosciences for a preclinical monoclonal antibody.
STAT
MAY 23, 2024
Enticed by the immense market opened by GLP-1 weight loss drugs Wegovy and Zepbound, a handful of biotech companies are trying to develop next-generation, longer-lasting therapies based on a very different approach: RNA interference. This Nobel Prize-winning science works by degrading the biological blueprints that RNA use to make proteins — without the genetic instructions, the troublesome proteins are never made and the gene is essentially muted.
BioPharma Dive
MAY 23, 2024
The findings, from two trials involving tens of thousands of women, could influence guidelines around the use of hormonal treatment for menopausal symptoms.
Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson
Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.
STAT
MAY 23, 2024
Top of the morning to you. I’m filling in for Ed Silverman this morning, which means you’re getting Brooklyn instead of the Pharmalot compound, Barry’s tea instead of flavored coffee, and most shockingly, adorable cats. I know. But I can still line up some listening material for the morning news. I know, we are all eagerly awaiting the return of our beloved Pharmalot, but let’s get to it.
pharmaphorum
MAY 23, 2024
Novo Nordisk’s second facility fire in a week is under control, although the office in Bagsvaerd affected by the latest blaze isn’t expected to be salvageable.
STAT
MAY 23, 2024
This is the online edition of Adam’s Biotech Scorecard, a subscriber-only newsletter. STAT+ subscribers can sign up here to get it delivered every Thursday to their inbox. I have one more, admittedly braggy thing to say about last week’s STAT Breakthrough Summit West in San Francisco. Of course we curated an incredible roster of influential industry leaders to speak on stage.
pharmaphorum
MAY 23, 2024
China’s Asymchem Laboratories has agreed to take over the operation of a Pfizer manufacturing facility in Sandwich, UK, saving dozens of jobs.
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STAT
MAY 23, 2024
How does a drug industry lobbying group move forward after years of upheaval, including having four CEOs in four years? This week on “The Readout LOUD,” STAT’s Chief Washington Correspondent Rachel Cohrs Zhang joins us to discuss the layoffs at trade group BIO and how things may be changing at the trade group. We also invite STAT reporter Eric Boodman on to talk about his new investigative series of stories exploring how Black women with sickle cell disease were coerced into
pharmaphorum
MAY 23, 2024
Cytokinetics has been a top biotech takeover candidate for some time, thanks to blockbuster speculation about its lead drug aficamten, but a $1 billion-plus set of financing deals shows it is prepared to go to market on its own.
Express Pharma
MAY 23, 2024
A new report from the Access to Medicine Foundation calls for urgent changes in research and development (R&D) to ensure new antibiotics and antifungals reach patients facing drug-resistant infections. The report examines five late-stage antimicrobial projects targeting severe drug-resistant pathogens, revealing that structured advance planning for access and stewardship is not yet standard among companies.
European Pharmaceutical Review
MAY 23, 2024
Last month, CARVYKTI ® (ciltacabtagene autoleucel; cilta-cel) was the first BCMA-targeted CAR-T cell therapy to be approved for second-line treatment of multiple myeloma by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In this Q&A, Dr Imran Khan, PhD, Vice President Medical Affairs, Hematology at Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, highlights the current landscape of CAR T therapies such as CARVYKTI and touches on the future direction of the sector.
Speaker: Chris Antypas and Josh Halladay
Access to limited distribution drugs and payer contracts are key to pharmacy expansion. But how do you prepare your operations to take the next step? Meaningful data: Collect and share clinical data regarding outcomes, utilization, and more Reporting: Limited distribution models require efficient tracking and reporting systems Workflows: Align workflows with specific pharma and payer contractual requirements For in-depth, expert insights on pharmacy expansion, watch this webinar from Inovalon.
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