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Oct 19, 2022

Johnson & Johnson signals job cuts amid consumer health separation, inflation pressure 

'Stickier than most have assumed': Abbott upends COVID forecasts yet again with $1.7B in test sales 

Kaiser Permanente, striking mental health workers announce tentative deal 

Buy now, pay later: Jazz hands over $50M for Zymeworks' phase 3 HER2-directed bispecific 

Merck KGaA faces probe in France over whether it misled patients about drug reformulation  

These startups are trying to reach communities often marginalized in healthcare. Here's how they do it

Advaxis spies merger with Ayala as route back to Nasdaq  

Philips’ CPAP and BiPAP mask recall stretches to 22M devices, lands Class I FDA label  

FDA pauses PTC's phase 2 Huntington's trial despite green light from regulators abroad  

Elevance Health execs express confidence as Medicare enrollment period gets underway  

Ambrx cuts 15% of staff and dumps lead HER2 asset after 'strategic review'  

GSK polishes 'crown jewel' Shingrix with new long-term protection data in older adults  

Medtronic's Hugo surgical robot collects green lights in Europe, Canada, Japan

 

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Johnson & Johnson signals job cuts amid consumer health separation, inflation pressure

In perhaps the most indirect way, Johnson & Johnson is warning about layoffs ahead. As the company is about to bid farewell to consumer health, it's looking at the opportunity to "rightsize" the infrastructure, CFO Joe Wolk said.
 

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'Stickier than most have assumed': Abbott upends COVID forecasts yet again with $1.7B in test sales

President Joe Biden may have declared the COVID-19 pandemic “over” in the U.S., but that news doesn’t appear to have reached the makers of diagnostic tests for the virus.

Kaiser Permanente, striking mental health workers announce tentative deal

Kaiser Permanente's Northern California mental health workers have been off the job since Aug. 15. Hawaiian psychologists, psychiatric nurses and other mental health workers are not included in the tentative deal and remain on strike, a union spokesperson said.

Buy now, pay later: Jazz hands over $50M for Zymeworks' phase 3 HER2-directed bispecific

Jazz Pharmaceuticals has thrown its hat into the HER2 ring. For $50 million, the company has secured the chance to pay a further $325 million to take Zymeworks’ HER2-directed bispecific antibody forward after the release of pivotal data.

Merck KGaA faces probe in France over whether it misled patients about drug reformulation

Merck KGaA’s problems in France over its thyroid drug Levothyrox aren’t going away. Seven months after France’s highest court confirmed an earlier civil court ruling that ordered the Germany-based company to compensate users who suffered problems from Levothyrox, the case has advanced at the judicial level. On Tuesday, a judge in Marseille opened a formal probe to determine if the company provided misleading information when switching the formulation of Levothyrox.

These startups are trying to reach communities often marginalized in healthcare. Here's how they do it

Providers are leveraging the power of virtual care and the social insights of population health frameworks and social determinants of health to create care strategies for underserved populations. Similar to the pandemic-era move to population-specific behavioral care with teletherapy platforms, Cityblock, Spora and Zócalo Health are taking a holistic look at patients, while Acclinate's subsidiary NowIncluded works to create unbiased data and care.

Advaxis spies merger with Ayala as route back to Nasdaq

With $20 million on hand and the second part of a potentially registrational phase 2/3 study just getting underway, Ayala was facing a potential cash crunch. But Advaxis may have solved its problems—in return for the hope of a return to the Nasdaq.

Philips’ CPAP and BiPAP mask recall stretches to 22M devices, lands Class I FDA label

Just a few weeks after racking up its fifth Class I recall from the FDA this year, Philips has hit the half-dozen mark.

FDA pauses PTC's phase 2 Huntington's trial despite green light from regulators abroad

The FDA has pumped the brakes on PTC Therapeutics’ Huntington's disease trial in the U.S. even as the studies kick into gear in other countries.

Elevance Health execs express confidence as Medicare enrollment period gets underway

The company released its quarterly earnings report on Wednesday morning. Profits were up 7.2% from the prior-year quarter, where Elevance Health posted $1.5 billion.

Ambrx cuts 15% of staff and dumps lead HER2 asset after 'strategic review'

Ambrx has been mulling major changes since August. Now it has confirmed what form these will take: narrowing its cancer pipeline to earlier-stage therapies and dumping its lead asset at the expense of 15% of its workforce.

GSK polishes 'crown jewel' Shingrix with new long-term protection data in older adults

As GSK looks to cement its vaccine dynasty over the coming years, the company continues to polish its “crown jewel” Shingrix. Now, a fresh batch of long-term data suggests the shot’s protective luster lasts at least a decade.

Medtronic's Hugo surgical robot collects green lights in Europe, Canada, Japan

That includes green lights for minimally invasive procedures in general surgery, urology and gynecology that the medtech giant estimates currently account for more than 80% of robotic-assisted surgeries worldwide.
 
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