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
Hospitals urge regulators to halt drugmakers’ expanded 340B data policies / Healthcare Dive
Emily Olsen / healthcaredive - The American Hospital Association argues new policies from Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk requiring providers to submit more claims data on dispensed 340B drugs is onerous and unlawful.
#healthcare #pharmaceuticals #drugpricing #publichealth #governmentpolicy #hospitaloperations #healthcarefinance
Friday, March 6, 2026, 12:23 pm / permalink 20277 / 4 stories in 10 days
GLP‑1 drugs may fight addiction across every major substance, according to a study of 600,000 people / Medical Express
medicalxpress - A patient of mine, a veteran who had tried to quit smoking for over a decade, told me that after he started a GLP-1 drug for his diabetes, he lost interest in cigarettes. He didn't use a patch. He didn't set a quit date. He simply lost interest. It happen…
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Friday, March 6, 2026, 12:23 pm / permalink 20276 / 10 stories in 10 days
Groundbreaking new drug shows promise for treating children with a devastating form of epilepsy / LiveScience
livescience - An experimental treatment reduces seizures and other symptoms in children with a type of epilepsy called Dravet syndrome.
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Thursday, March 5, 2026, 4:23 pm / permalink 20233 / 4 stories in 11 days
Adding Hormone Therapy to PORT Might Not Benefit Patients with Recurrent Prostate Cancer and PSA of 0.5 ng/mL or Less / ESMO
esmo - Findings from the POSEIDON meta-analysis of the MARCAP consortium
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Thursday, March 5, 2026, 3:23 am / permalink 20175 / 3 stories in 11 days
Novo Nordisk inks $2.1B oral obesity drug deal / Beckers
Ella Jeffries / beckershospitalreview - Novo Nordisk has partnered with Vivtex Corp. to develop next-generation oral biologic medicines for obesity, diabetes and related conditions. Under the agreement, Vivtex will license its proprietary oral drug-delivery technologies to Novo Nordisk and is e…
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Tuesday, March 3, 2026, 1:22 am / permalink 20039 / 22 stories in 13 days
Antitumour Activity of Rezatapopt Provides Proof of Concept for p53 Reactivation in Patients with TP53 Y220C-mutated Solid Tumours / ESMO
esmo - Findings from the PYNNACLE study
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Monday, March 2, 2026, 2:22 am / permalink 19973 / 9 stories in 14 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
Merck Splits Oncology Business Unit as Keytruda Patent Expiry Nears / OncoDaily
oncodaily - On February 23, 2026, Merck announced a reorganization of its Human Health structure into two business units: an Oncology Business Unit and a Specialty, Pharma & Infectious Diseases Business Unit. […]
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Saturday, February 28, 2026, 3:22 am / permalink 19937 / 9 stories in 16 days
Boehringer wins accelerated approval for first-line use of lung cancer drug / Endpoints
Lei Lei Wu / endpoints - The FDA greenlit an expanded label for Boehringer Ingelheim’s lung cancer drug Hernexeos, marking the first use of the Commissioner's National Priority Voucher for a new indication. Boehringer won an accelerated
#healthcare #pharmaceuticals #publichealth #governmentpolicy #biotech #drugdevelopment #fda #oncology
Saturday, February 28, 2026, 12:23 am / permalink 19927 / 9 stories in 16 days
Novartis to build $23B radioligand therapy site / Beckers
Ella Jeffries / beckershospitalreview - Novartis will construct a 46,000-square-foot radioligand therapy manufacturing site in Denton, Texas, as part of its $23 billion U.S. investment. The facility will be Novartis’ fifth radioligand therapy site in the U.S. and its first in Texas, according t…
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Saturday, February 28, 2026, 12:23 am / permalink 19926 / 3 stories in 16 days
Patient dies in MacroGenics' cancer study, FDA puts trial on hold / Endpoints
Max Gelman / endpoints - The FDA has placed a partial clinical hold on MacroGenics’ Phase 2 study in gynecologic cancers after one patient died and three others experienced life-threatening side effects, the company disclosed Tuesday. The patient who died ...
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Saturday, February 28, 2026, 12:23 am / permalink 19925 / 3 stories in 16 days
Generate Biomedicines’ $400M IPO Puts AI Drug Discovery Back in Focus / OncoDaily
oncodaily - Generate Biomedicines priced its U.S. initial public offering on February 26, 2026, selling 25 million shares at $16 each for gross proceeds of $400 million, with trading expected on the Nasdaq under […]
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Friday, February 27, 2026, 11:22 pm / permalink 19912 / 6 stories in 16 days
Novo Nordisk’s CagriSema beaten by Lilly’s Zepbound in head-to-head obesity trial / Endpoints
Elizabeth Cairns / endpoints - Novo Nordisk’s GLP-1/amylin combo drug CagriSema was not as good as Eli Lilly’s marketed obesity shot Zepbound in a head-to-head study, the Danish company said Monday. Patients in the REDEFINE 4 ...
#obesity #healthcare #pharmaceuticals #elililly #novonordisk #weightloss #drugdevelopment
Thursday, February 26, 2026, 7:23 am / permalink 19788 / 12 stories in 18 days
More Research, Less Cancer: £250m raised to transform the future of cancer research / Cancer Research UK
Charlotte Mathé / cancerresearchuk - We’ve reached an incredible moment - £250m raised for our More Research, Less Cancer campaign. This milestone brings us more than halfway to our £400m goal and accelerates our mission to prevent, detect and treat cancer earlier and more effectively. The p…
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Tuesday, February 24, 2026, 1:24 pm / permalink 19675 / 53 stories in 20 days
FDA Launches Framework to Accelerate Individualized Therapies for Ultra-Rare Diseases 2026 / OncoDaily
oncodaily - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released groundbreaking draft guidance introducing a new regulatory framework designed to accelerate the development and approval of individualized therapies for patients with […]
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Tuesday, February 24, 2026, 12:25 pm / permalink 19669 / 6 stories in 20 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
Perioperative Enfortumab Vedotin Plus Pembrolizumab Improves EFS, OS and pCR in Patients with MIBC Who Are Ineligible for Cisplatin / ESMO
esmo - Findings from the KEYNOTE-905/EV-303 study
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Monday, February 23, 2026, 2:22 am / permalink 19558 / 15 stories in 21 days
Data and Decisions in Advanced NSCLC at the 2026 TTLC Symposia – IASLC / OncoDaily
oncodaily - International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) shared a post on LinkedIn: “2026 TTLC Symposia Event Data and Decisions in Advanced NSCLC The treatment landscape for advanced NSCLC is evolving […]
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Monday, February 23, 2026, 2:22 am / permalink 19557 / 23 stories in 21 days
A novel C. diff vaccine shows promise / Beckers
Mariah Taylor / beckershospitalreview - Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt Health researchers have developed a promising novel vaccine to treat Clostridioides difficile infections. Previous vaccine strategies targeted the bacterium’s primary toxins, according to a Feb. 18 system news release. Th…
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Saturday, February 21, 2026, 7:21 am / permalink 19520 / 2 stories in 23 days