Patients whose blood cancer advances after initial treatments have one last therapeutic option: the engineering of their immune cells into a living medicine. But cancer is crafty and it often finds a way to…
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Life-sciences companies faced fewer class-action securities lawsuits last year, continuing a trend of declining litigation over the last few years, according to a report published in February by the law firm Dechert LLP.Investors filed…
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The pain drug market has many products, but there’s still a need for pills with better properties, such as avoiding addiction. Eli Lilly sees potential in the non-opioid pain drug research from Confo Therapeutics…
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Joint Statement of Chair Khan, Commissioner Slaughter, Commissioner Wilson, and Commissioner Bedoya Regarding Amazon.com, Inc.’s Acquisition of 1Life Healthcare, Inc.
The FTC warns Amazon that it will be monitoring its use of patient data following…
The hot topic around the virtual water cooler this week was the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decision this week that employers can no longer use two specific strategies to silence laid-off employees. Employers…
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Teladoc Health reports Q4 results: revenue up 15%, EPS –$0.23 versus –$0.07, beating revenue expectations but falling short on earnings.
The company reported a staggering $13.7 billion loss for FY 2022, much of…
AbbVie turned to Capsida Biotherapeutics two years ago for help delivering gene therapies into the brain. That partnership is ongoing, but the pharmaceutical giant now wants to leverage its partner’s technology for delivery of…
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February 22, 2023 Headlines No Comments New Releases: SDOH Toolkit and Learning Forum Sessions for the Health IT Community
ONC publishes the “Social Determinants of Health Information Exchange Toolkit” to serve as a…
Moderna’s ambitions in messenger RNA technology include therapies that do their editing work inside the patient. To that end, the biotech company is starting an R&D collaboration with a division of ElevateBio that brings…
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Clotting disorders can be treated by infusing patients with clotting proteins they lack, or with drugs that replace the function of these proteins. Gene therapies may soon become another option. Hemophilia A and B…
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