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FDA budget battles, prisons’ sobering Covid response & BIO’s CEO search is on

23.05.2023

You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis. Sign up here to receive this newsletter in your inbox on Tuesdays and Thursdays. House committee sets up for budget fight UPDATE: …

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Biotech

Gene therapy death not caused by CRISPR, investigators confirm

19.05.2023

Terry Horgan, the 27-year-old patient who died eight days after receiving a CRISPR therapy custom-built for him, likely suffered a fatal innate immune response to the virus used to deliver …

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Pharma

AstraZeneca is third member to leave PhRMA in five months

16.05.2023

WASHINGTON — AstraZeneca has decided to leave the brand drug lobbying powerhouse PhRMA halfway through the year, the organization said. The exit is the group’s third in five months, as …

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Biotech / Health / Pharma

‘Robbing Peter to pay Paul’: Obesity experts debate risks of new weight loss drugs

08.05.2023

Amid rising demand for drugs like Wegovy, Ozempic, and Mounjaro that can lead to significant weight loss, some obesity experts are concerned about the drugs’ costs — both to patients’ …

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Biotech

‘Are we better off with the information?’: Experts spar over the benefits of liquid biopsy to catch cancer

04.05.2023

New technologies are making it possible to detect cancer earlier than ever — but the field is still fiercely divided on whether these liquid biopsy tests are yet ready for …

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Pharma

Amid booming demand, Novo to hold back some doses of obesity drug Wegovy for new U.S. patients

04.05.2023

Novo Nordisk, the maker of the wildly popular obesity drug Wegovy, said Thursday it would temporarily limit some “starter” doses for new patients in the United States to ensure a …

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Biotech

For Eli Lilly’s head scientist, Alzheimer’s results cap a 25-year scientific quest

03.05.2023

If you flip to the 1,031st page of the May 1998 edition of the Journal of Cell Biology, you’ll find the first scientific byline for Daniel Skovronsky, then a young …

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Biotech

Now 18, the first child to ever receive CAR-T cancer therapy is ready for a new identity

03.05.2023

The Food and Drug Administration approves dozens of cancer drugs every year, but the vast majority of them offer gradual improvements. A treatment might shrink tumors in a third of …

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Health

FDA approves first RSV vaccine, a long-sought scientific achievement

03.05.2023

The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday licensed the first-ever vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, completing an elusive quest that has been decades in the making. The product, …

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