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Nov 30, 2022

Facing a familiar side effect problem, Eisai makes the case for its next Alzheimer’s drug after patient deaths


Amgen, J&J and Sanofi size up Horizon as Big Pharma renews interest in rare disease M&A


UnitedHealth Group expects to bring in nearly $360B in revenue for 2023


Amazon Web Services launches genomics-focused cloud that can store, analyze petabytes of data


Sanofi’s sleeping sickness drug cures 95% of people in phase 2/3 trial, boosting plan to stop transmission

 

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Facing a familiar side effect problem, Eisai makes the case for its next Alzheimer's drug after patient deaths

Two deaths have dimmed the initial glow surrounding Eisai and Biogen’s next Alzheimer’s disease therapy lecanemab. But the Japanese company now has more answers on the risks patients may need to learn to accept to receive treatment.
 

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Amgen, J&J and Sanofi size up Horizon as Big Pharma renews interest in rare disease M&A

Rare disease drug maker Horizon Therapeutics said it has drawn buyout interest from pharma juggernauts Amgen, Johnson & Johnson and Sanofi, all of which arguably have good reasons to make an M&A move.

UnitedHealth Group expects to bring in nearly $360B in revenue for 2023

UnitedHealth Group expects double-digit revenue growth in 2023, with the company's top line protected to come in between $357 billion and $360 billion next year, the company announced Tuesday.

Amazon Web Services launches genomics-focused cloud that can store, analyze petabytes of data

Amazon Web Services unveiled a new cloud computing service this week that aims to give researchers and scientists in life sciences and healthcare a sturdier option for storing and analyzing mass amounts of individual health data.

Sanofi's sleeping sickness drug cures 95% of people in phase 2/3 trial, boosting plan to stop transmission

Sanofi’s oral sleeping sickness candidate acoziborole has achieved 95% efficacy in a late-phase clinical trial, delivering a boost to a global push to interrupt transmission of the parasitic disease by 2030.

UK regulators warn of ocular side effects after treatment with Sanofi's Dupixent

After five years of Dupixent’s reign for Sanofi, the U.K.'s medicines regulatory agency is warning about risks of ocular side effects. The regulator asked patients and healthcare providers to look out for sudden changes in vision or eye pain after treatment. Patients are asked to “promptly report” new or worsening symptoms.

J&J's Ethicon, CMR Surgical pair up on minimally invasive robotic surgery

The collaboration will see CMR and Ethicon’s sales teams offer their respective portfolios bundled together, starting in select hospitals in Europe and Brazil.

More vaccinated than unvaccinated died from COVID-19 in August: analysis

Vaccinated individuals still stand a much greater chance of surviving COVID-19 than unvaccinated individuals. Still, scientists keep a wary eye on troublesome trends.

J&J unit, happy with AC Immune Alzheimer's work, moves 1 of 2 shots to next step

Janssen has picked a tau vaccine from its collaboration with neurodegenerative-focused biotech AC Immune to advance into further development.

Catalent to lay off hundreds at manufacturing sites in Texas, Maryland and Indiana

Catalent is laying off more than 210 workers at two sites in Maryland and one in Texas according to Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notifications (WARN) posted in the states. The company also is reducing 400 staffers at its sprawling site in Bloomington, Indiana. The layoffs come as the company is cutting costs as revenue from COVID-19 products is in sharp decline.

Deep learning AI could predict heart disease death from a chest X-ray 10 years out: study

“What we've shown is a chest X-ray is more than a chest X-ray,” said Jakob Weiss, M.D., lead author of the study .

CMS threatens citations for hospitals without appropriate workplace safety practices

The agency published a memo Monday reminding hospitals of their "regulatory obligation" to safety practices as well as their healthcare workers' right "to provide care in a safe setting."
 
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