Alfasigma Pays $300M for Rights to GSK Rare Liver Disease Drug On Track for FDA Decision / MedCity
Frank Vinluan / medcitynews - GSK licensed to Alfasigma global rights to linerixibat, a drug developed to treat the rare liver disease primary biliary cholangitis (PBC). The move follows Alfasigma’s 2025 voluntary market withdrawal of Ocaliva, a PBC drug that had sparked safety concer…
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Saturday, March 14, 2026, 8:21 pm / permalink 20771 / 2 stories in 46 hrs
Universal Health Services buys Talkspace for $835M / Endpoints
Ngai Yeung / endpoints - Universal Health Services, which operates hospitals and mental healthcare facilities, is acquiring Talkspace for $835 million in an area closely watched for consolidation, as virtual mental health companies grapple with falling valuations despite high dem…
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Thursday, March 12, 2026, 1:24 pm / permalink 20643 / 6 stories in 4 days
MUSC Health acquires South Carolina's largest multispecialty practice for $111M / Fierce
fiercehealthcare - The deal, effective March 3, includes 126 physicians and advanced practitioners, expanding the academic system's primary care capacity.
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Monday, March 9, 2026, 12:22 am / permalink 20353 / 7 stories in 7 days
Servier Boosts Presence in Rare Cancers With $2.5B Acquisition of Day One Biopharma / MedCity
Frank Vinluan / medcitynews - Day One Biopharmaceuticals is Servier’s biggest acquisition yet, topping the $2.4 billion it paid to buy Shire’s cancer business in 2018. Day One markets Ojemda, approved for treating pediatric low-grade glioma, the most common type of brain cancer in chi…
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Saturday, March 7, 2026, 12:22 am / permalink 20306 / 5 stories in 9 days
Novartis closes Avidity deal as rare heart disease spinout launches / Endpoints
Lei Lei Wu / endpoints - Atrium Therapeutics launched Friday morning as Novartis closed the $12 billion deal to buy Avidity Biosciences and its RNA muscle therapies. The spinout will take on Avidity’s early-stage programs for genetic cardiomyopathies — heart muscle diseases ...
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Monday, March 2, 2026, 12:23 am / permalink 19968 / 2 stories in 14 days
Gilead to acquire cell therapy manufacturer for $7.8B / Beckers
Paige Twenter / beckershospitalreview - In a deal worth $7.8 billion, Gilead Sciences has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Arcellx, a biotech company developing a cell therapy for multiple myeloma. Gilead announced the acquisition agreement a few months after Arcellx published positive…
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Monday, February 23, 2026, 4:23 pm / permalink 19605 / 7 stories in 21 days
Novartis signs macrocyclic deal with Unnatural Products for $100M upfront / Endpoints
Kyle LaHucik / endpoints - Novartis will pay $100 million upfront to tap into a macrocyclic peptide platform from Unnatural Products, a deal that could lead to new cardiovascular disease medicines. The move allows the Swiss pharma giant to delve ...
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Saturday, February 21, 2026, 6:22 am / permalink 19517 / 2 stories in 23 days
Hims to buy Australia’s Eucalyptus for $240M upfront in global push / Endpoints
Ngai Yeung / endpoints - In a bid to build out its global presence, Hims is buying Australian digital health company Eucalyptus in a deal worth $240 million upfront. The deal announced Thursday morning would allow Hims to launch in ...
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Saturday, February 21, 2026, 1:23 am / permalink 19510 / 5 stories in 23 days
Prime Healthcare Foundation acquires Maine health system / Healthcare Dive
Sydney Halleman / healthcaredive - Nonprofit Prime Foundation, an affiliate of for-profit hospital operator Prime Healthcare, now owns 21 hospitals across eight states.
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Saturday, February 21, 2026, 12:23 am / permalink 19504 / 3 stories in 23 days
Walgreens to lay off hundreds of employees / Healthcare Dive
Dani James / healthcaredive - The drugstore retailer said it was simplifying its organization to speed up decision-making in a move impacting at least 600 workers.
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Saturday, February 21, 2026, 12:23 am / permalink 19503 / 2 stories in 23 days
Federal judge vacates FTC's expanded premerger notification requirements / Fierce
fiercehealthcare - The overhaul to the Hart-Scott-Rodino form went into effect in early 2025, and by the regulator's own estimates expanded merging companies' average paperwork burdens from 37 hours to 105 hours. The court's ordered rollback is set to take effect Feb. 19 pe…
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Monday, February 16, 2026, 12:21 am / permalink 19223 / 4 stories in 28 days
Eli Lilly Expands Its In Vivo Ambitions, Acquiring Cell Therapy Startup Orna for up to $2.4B / MedCity
Frank Vinluan / medcitynews - Orna Therapeutics brings Eli Lilly an in vivo cell therapy ready for Phase 1 testing as a potential treatment for autoimmune diseases. Lilly is now the latest pharma company to use M&A to enter this growing field, following deals made in the past year by …
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Saturday, February 14, 2026, 3:21 am / permalink 19178 / 9 stories in 4 wks
‘Vertical integration is destroying people’s ability to access care’: Payer CEOs face bipartisan congressional grilling / Beckers
Jakob Emerson / beckershospitalreview - The CEOs of the nation’s largest health insurers drew the ire of lawmakers on both sides of the aisle during congressional hearings Jan. 22 over industry consolidation, prior authorization practices and executive pay, with members pressing executives to e…
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Thursday, January 22, 2026, 9:22 pm / permalink 18314 / 27 stories in 7 wks
CHS signs $450M hospital sale to Huntsville Hospital Health System / Fierce
fiercehealthcare - The deal for 180-bed Crestwood Medical Center, set to close in Q2, will add a fifteenth hospital to the northern Alabama-based nonprofit system.
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Wednesday, January 21, 2026, 1:22 pm / permalink 18249 / 10 stories in 7 wks
Merck Could Strike 30 Billion Deal for Revolution Medicines / OncoDaily
oncodaily - According to the Financial Times, Merck is in talks to acquire Revolution Medicines, a Redwood City, California-based cancer drug developer, in a deal that could value the company at roughly […]
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Monday, January 12, 2026, 1:21 am / permalink 17767 / 2 stories in 2 months
New Jersey system to join RWJBarnabas / Beckers
Kristin Kuchno / beckershospitalreview - West Orange, N.J.-based RWJBarnabas Health and Englewood (N.J.) Health have signed a definitive agreement under which Englewood would become part of RWJBarnabas Health. The transaction is subject to state and federal regulatory approvals, according to a J…
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Saturday, January 10, 2026, 5:21 pm / permalink 17747 / 2 stories in 2 months
Maimonides Health to merge with NYC Health + Hospitals supported by $2.2B state grant / Fierce
fiercehealthcare - Brooklyn, New York-based Maimonides Health is merging with New York City's public health system NYC Health + Hospitals, the organizations announced Monday.
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Saturday, January 3, 2026, 7:22 am / permalink 17452 / 2 stories in 2 months
AstraZeneca bets up to $2B on Jacobio’s pan-KRAS inhibitor for cancer / Endpoints
Ayisha Sharma / endpoints - AstraZeneca is spending $100 million upfront to secure ex-China rights for an early-stage cancer drug developed by Jacobio Pharma. The UK drugmaker will be responsible for advancing and selling the oral pan-KRAS inhibitor, JAB-23E73, in ...
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Saturday, December 27, 2025, 6:20 am / permalink 17306 / 7 stories in 2 months
Sanofi buys hepatitis B vaccine maker Dynavax for $2.2B; gets CRL for MS drug / Endpoints
Elizabeth Cairns / endpoints - Sanofi is set to supplement its vaccine offering with the acquisition of Dynavax Technologies for $2.2 billion in cash, the companies said Wednesday. Separately, Sanofi said the ...
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Saturday, December 27, 2025, 2:21 am / permalink 17302 / 3 stories in 2 months
ChristianaCare, Virtua Health call off $6.3B merger plans / Fierce
fiercehealthcare - ChristianaCare and Virtua Health have pulled the plug on their merger plans, jettisoning a deal that would have created a health system with a combined $6.3 billion in annual revenue.
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Saturday, December 20, 2025, 12:21 am / permalink 17156 / 4 stories in 2 months