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There is still no effective vaccine or cure for HIV. Scientists are considering options ranging from longer-term antiretroviral therapy (ART) that space out injections by several years to long-lasting ...
Abbott Laboratories’ second quarter results echoed Johnson & Johnson’s, with med tech performing the hero’s work with strong growth. Overall, Abbott slightly beat expectations with sales up 6.9% ...
The rough ride presaged by briefing documents came to pass for GSK plc with the drug first approved by the U.S. FDA as Blenrep (belantamab mafodotin, bel-maf), as the agency’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory ...
The Australian government has awarded nearly AU$100 million (US$64.65 million) in grant funding to three biopharma/med-tech ...
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a draft coverage memo for cardiac contractility modulation ...
The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation has agreed to provide Prime Medicine Inc. an additional investment of up to $24 million to ...
Voyager Therapeutics Inc. has expanded its Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pipeline with the addition of a wholly owned program that ...
Expanding on guidance issued a dozen years ago, the U.S. FDA released a draft guidance to help sponsors developing cancer drugs for use in novel combinations determine the contribution of the ...
The U.S. FDA’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee took up the matter of GSK plc’s relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma drug, Blenrep (belantamab mafodotin). A B-cell maturation antigen-directed ...
After a 10-year project and a £60 million (US$80 million) investment, the UK Biobank has completed the whole body scans of ...
The U.K. government has committed to reduce the cost of drug and device approvals by 25% as part of a long-awaited life sciences strategy which sets out a 10-year plan for the sector.
Johnson & Johnson beat analysts’ expectations for its second quarter results, led by medical device sales of $8.54 billion. All med-tech segments performed better than anticipated, with cardiology ...