HHS to drop 340B rebate pilot after court rulings / Beckers
Ella Jeffries / beckershospitalreview - HHS will drop its 340B rebate model pilot program following two federal court rulings that blocked its implementation. The program, announced in August 2025, was challenged by the American Hospital Association, the Maine Hospital Association and four safe…
#healthcare #pharmaceuticals #drugpricing #publichealth #governmentpolicy
Saturday, February 7, 2026, 6:21 am / permalink 18879 / 3 stories in 5 wks
#ISC26: Bayer’s asundexian reduced ischemic strokes by 26% in Phase 3 trial / Endpoints
Ayisha Sharma / endpoints - Bayer shared more details from its unexpected win in a Phase 3 study testing its next-generation blood thinner for secondary stroke prevention. The factor XIa inhibitor, named asundexian, reduced the occurrence of ischemic stroke by ...
#healthcare #pharmaceuticals #publichealth #biotech #drugdevelopment
Saturday, February 7, 2026, 3:21 am / permalink 18873 / 2 stories in 5 wks
Eikon Therapeutics Raises $381 M in IPO to Advance Live-Cell Imaging in Cancer Drug Discovery / OncoDaily
oncodaily - Eikon Therapeutics has raised $381 million through its IPO, pricing at the top of its range in a strong sign of renewed investor appetite for biotech offerings. The South San […]
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Saturday, February 7, 2026, 1:21 am / permalink 18871 / 2 stories in 5 wks
HHS scraps 340B rebate pilot in win for hospitals / Healthcare Dive
Emily Olsen / healthcaredive - The Trump administration agreed to drop a controversial pilot that would have allowed drugmakers to give post-sales rebates on some drugs instead of upfront discounts.
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Saturday, February 7, 2026, 12:23 am / permalink 18867 / 5 stories in 5 wks
Statin pills much safer than advertised, major review finds / BBC
bbc - The results, in The Lancet journal, come from trials involving more than 120,000 people comparing statins with a dummy drug or placebo.
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Thursday, February 5, 2026, 8:24 pm / permalink 18820 / 3 stories in 5 wks
Novo Nordisk vows legal action to protect Wegovy pill / Medical Express
medicalxpress - Novo Nordisk said Thursday it would take legal action against a US chain offering a copycat of the new pill version of its Wegovy weight-loss drug.
#obesity #healthcare #pharmaceuticals #drugpricing #novonordisk #weightloss #drugdevelopment #digitalhealth
Thursday, February 5, 2026, 3:23 pm / permalink 18807 / 22 stories in 5 wks
FTC deal over insulin prices forces Express Scripts to overhaul policies / Beckers
Elizabeth Casolo / beckershospitalreview - The Federal Trade Commission reached a settlement with Cigna’s Express Scripts in a case over alleged inflation of insulin prices, according to a Feb. 4 agency news release. Under the settlement, Express Scripts must keep drug manufacturer compensation de…
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Wednesday, February 4, 2026, 3:25 pm / permalink 18768 / 6 stories in 5 wks
Letters, Jan. 27, 2026: ‘A Team Canada must be assembled’ to help diversify trade / Calgary Sun
Jeffrey Morgan / calgarysun - Need to diversify I just watched a video detailing the prior commercial trading practices between Canada and the U.S. It makes me realize there is nothing more important than Canada diversifying its trade with other countries. By ‘nothing,’ I mean all pro…
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Saturday, January 31, 2026, 2:22 pm / permalink 18622 / 9 stories in 6 wks
FDA lifts hold on one of two Phase 3 gene editing studies by Intellia / Endpoints
Lei Lei Wu / endpoints - The FDA has allowed Intellia Therapeutics to resume one of its two pivotal trials of a gene editing therapy for transthyretin amyloidosis, which is a disease caused by misfolded proteins. Intellia
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Saturday, January 31, 2026, 7:22 am / permalink 18610 / 4 stories in 6 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
#JPM26: Day 3 at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference / Endpoints
ENDPOINTS / endpoints - It’s Wednesday at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference, and as the sessions wind down, we’ll be keeping an eye on presentations from WuXi AppTec and AbbVie. Yesterday afternoon, our Executive Editor Drew Armstrong spoke with ...
#obesity #healthcare #pharmaceuticals #weightloss #biotech #drugdevelopment #digitalhealth
Saturday, January 17, 2026, 7:21 pm / permalink 18138 / 28 stories in 1 month
F.D.A. Decisions on Abortion Pill Were Based on Science, New Analysis Finds / NYT
Pam Belluck / nytimes - A study of more than 5,000 pages of agency documents on mifepristone over 12 years found that agency leaders almost always followed the evidence-based recommendations of scientists.
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Saturday, January 17, 2026, 8:21 am / permalink 18126 / 5 stories in 1 month
#JPM26: Day 1 at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference / Endpoints
ENDPOINTS / endpoints - It’s day 1 at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference, and the mood heading into the week is one of cautious optimism. Biotech fundraising was off to a hot start in 2026. There ...
#healthcare #pharmaceuticals #biotech #digitalhealth
Saturday, January 17, 2026, 8:21 am / permalink 18125 / 9 stories in 1 month
No Link Between Acetaminophen in Pregnancy and Autism, a New Study Finds / NYT
Azeen Ghorayshi / nytimes - The review looked at more than three dozen studies and found no evidence that acetaminophen increased the risk of neurodevelopmental disorders in children.
#healthcare #pharmaceuticals #publichealth #autism #infanthealth
Friday, January 16, 2026, 6:23 pm / permalink 18099 / 3 stories in 2 months
Life-extending prostate cancer drug to be offered to thousands in England / BBC
bbc - Abiraterone will be available in a matter of weeks and will be offered to 7,000 men a year.
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Friday, January 16, 2026, 2:22 pm / permalink 18069 / 9 stories in 2 months
FDA rejects cancer therapy for rare post-transplant disease / Beckers
Ella Jeffries / beckershospitalreview - Atara Biotherapeutics received a second complete response letter from the FDA for its biologics license application for Ebvallo (tabelecleucel). The letter, received Jan. 9, said the FDA no longer considers the single-arm ALLELE trial adequate to support …
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Friday, January 16, 2026, 11:55 am / permalink 18057 / 2 stories in 2 months
Compounding pharmacy sues Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk over GLP-1 access / Beckers
Ella Jeffries / beckershospitalreview - Strive Compounding Pharmacy filed a federal antitrust lawsuit Jan. 14 against Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk, alleging the two drugmakers used their market power to restrict access to compounded GLP-1 medications and suppress competition. The lawsuit, filed i…
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Thursday, January 15, 2026, 1:23 pm / permalink 17926 / 4 stories in 2 months
NVIDIA and Eli Lilly Launch $1B AI Co-Innovation Lab to Reinvent Drug Discovery / OncoDaily
oncodaily - Dave Ricks, Chair, CEO at Eli Lilly and Company, shared Eli Lilly and Company‘s post on LinkedIn, adding: “Exciting news from the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference: Lilly and NVIDIA are joining […]
#healthcare #pharmaceuticals #elililly #publichealth #biotech #drugdevelopment
Thursday, January 15, 2026, 1:23 pm / permalink 17925 / 2 stories in 2 months
FDA moves to remove suicide warnings from GLP-1 weight loss drugs / Medical Express
medicalxpress - Federal health regulators say popular weight loss drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound do not increase the risk of suicidal thoughts, and they have asked drugmakers to remove those warnings from medication labels.
#obesity #healthcare #pharmaceuticals #elililly #novonordisk #weightloss #publichealth #governmentpolicy #fda
Thursday, January 15, 2026, 1:23 pm / permalink 17924 / 8 stories in 2 months
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 […]
#healthcare #pharmaceuticals #publichealth #biotech #mergersandacquisitions #corporatetakeover #drugdevelopment
Monday, January 12, 2026, 1:21 am / permalink 17767 / 2 stories in 2 months