Pharmaceutical

BridgeBio secures $1.25bn for genetic therapy development

BridgeBio Pharma has secured strategic financing of $1.25bn from Blue Owl Capita...

argenx’s VYVDURA gains approval in Japan for gMG treatment

Japan has approved argenx’s VYVDURA injection for subcutaneous administration to...

STAT+: The FDA’s diagnostics chief, who led through Cov...

Timothy Stenzel, who led the FDA's diagnostics division during the Covid-19 pand...

STAT+: Klobuchar urges drugmakers to remove patents FTC...

A key U.S. lawmaker is urging six large drug companies to remove dozens of paten...

Biotech layoffs, slumping stocks, and a 2024 preview

This week on "The Readout LOUD" podcast: Why are rich biotechs cutting costs? Ha...

Will Congress get any health policy done this year?

Lawmakers are headed toward passage of a stopgap spending bill that funds the sa...

STAT+: Microsoft to embed AI tool for clinical document...

Microsoft will launch its artificial intelligence tool for automating clinical d...

STAT+: Humana slashes profit predictions amid soaring M...

Humana’s Medicare Advantage enrollees got way more care than the company predict...

Bernie Sanders proposes subpoenas of CEOs of J&J, Merck...

Bernie Sanders is hoping to subpoena the CEOs of J&J and Merck to testify in Con...

Could long Covid’s signs of immune dysregulation in the...

New research has identified proteins in the blood of people with long Covid that...

STAT+: Pipelines from high school to health care jobs t...

Through the initiative, hospitals like Mass General Brigham will help design a c...

STAT+: CRISPR-edited pig liver from eGenesis passes fir...

A University of Pennsylvania team showed a gene-edited pig liver kept alive in a...

STAT+: Apple Watch pulse oximeter feature removed to co...

Apple will remove the blood oxygen measurement feature from its Apple Watches, t...

The XBI comedown after JPM

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STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about drug price hik...

Drug companies raised list prices on 775 brand-name drugs during the first half ...

STAT+: How digital therapeutics companies are improvisi...

Health insurers have been reluctant to cover novel digital therapeutics, forcing...