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| By Nick Paul Taylor Merck & Co. has a new challenger for the chronic cough market: GSK. The British Big Pharma is set to pay $2 billion to buy Bellus Health, securing a late-phase rival to Merck’s stuttering gefapixant program and completing a remarkable, 16-year turnaround for the biotech. |
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By Annalee Armstrong After circling around the crop of biotechs ripe for a takeover, Big Pharma companies have finally decided to strike. Merck & Co. made the first jab for Prometheus Biosciences on Sunday, then GSK struck Tuesday. |
By Annalee Armstrong The overhaul of Johnson & Johnson’s infectious disease work, which includes the end of its adult RSV vaccine program, has resulted in expenses of $130 million for the first quarter. |
Sponsored by YPrime Michael Hughes, Chief Product Officer at YPrime discusses the benefits and challenges of eConsent implementation and how to circumvent the biggest barriers to adoption. |
By Annalee Armstrong KRAS inhibitors arrived on the market in May 2021 and December 2022 to much fanfare—but if you ask Eli Lilly’s Loxo unit, the therapies have left much to be desired. |
By Max Bayer J&J is bullish on its pharmaceutical plans after reporting $130 million in restructuring costs in the first quarter due to an overhaul of its infectious disease division. The company believes that progress in both immunology and oncology programs provides a sturdy foundation to build on. |
By Nick Paul Taylor The long wait for clinical data on Kinnate Biopharma’s pan-RAF inhibitors is over—and investors see little to get excited about. |
By Gabrielle Masson As difficult market conditions continue, two European-based biotechs are slashing costs and seeking ways to stay afloat as the end of the road nears. |
By James Waldron Almost exactly a year after Nektar Therapeutics jettisoned 70% of its staff, the biotech is now contracting again. This time, 60% of its San Francisco-based workforce are being laid off as part of a reorganization that will also see the C-suite rejigged and the company focus on immunology. |
By Gabrielle Masson The pressure to perform is building for Affimed as its investigational lymphoma treatment fails to beat current standard-of-care treatments, prompting the German biotech to pursue a new path for its lead asset. |
By Kevin Dunleavy 2022 was all about a return to normalcy from the COVID-19 pandemic. While a few companies continued to reap huge profits from COVID products, others benefited from a return to business as usual operations. It was a tough year for the global economy, but biopharma showed its resilience with all but a few recording revenue gains. |
By Helen Floersh A research team has used the blood of hibernating bears to discover how waxing and waning levels of a protein protect against venous thromboembolism. |
By Annie Burky CHICAGO—Soon after announcing a partnership with Amazon Web Services at HIMSS 2023 on Monday, Royal Philips CEO Roy Jakobs joined other health execs to speak on the importance of strategic innovation. |
By Fraiser Kansteiner A $6.9 billion charge tied to J&J’s talc defense spurred a net earnings loss of $68 million in 2023’s first quarter, the company reported Tuesday. J&J is currently defending itself against tens of thousands of lawsuits claiming its talc-based products cause cancer. |
By Helen Floersh A nearly-decade-long study sponsored by actor Michael J. Fox's foundation has resulted in an assay that could pave the way for early intervention in Parkinson's disease—and maybe even new drugs that can prevent the disease. |
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| This week on "The Top Line," we talk about biotech’s top money raisers in 2022. We also cover J&J's talc litigation, prison plans for Elizabeth Holmes and more of this week's top headlines. |
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