Pharmaceutical

STAT+: Verily lands $38 million deal with CDC for wastewater surveillance

STAT+: Verily lands $38 million deal with CDC for waste...

Oct 2, 2023

Alphabet’s life sciences company Verily has scored its first CDC contract, a hig...

The stability of $0 premiums in Medicare Advantage

The stability of $0 premiums in Medicare Advantage

Oct 2, 2023

Medicare Advantage plans really didn’t ratchet up their premiums for 2024, despi...

STAT+: Court strikes down Trump-era rule that allowed health insurers to broadly use copay accumulators

STAT+: Court strikes down Trump-era rule that allowed h...

Oct 2, 2023

A U.S. judge has struck down a Trump administration rule that allowed health ins...

STAT+: Former FDA official lays out how to keep patients safe from risky medical devices

STAT+: Former FDA official lays out how to keep patient...

Oct 2, 2023

Former FDA official Madris Kinard built a database to help patients, doctors, an...

Here’s what’s moving the needle in biotech stocks, in the final quarter of a dismal year

Here’s what’s moving the needle in biotech stocks, in t...

Oct 2, 2023

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STAT+: Pharmalittle: Court allows Medicare drug price negotiation to proceed; J&J will not enforce patents on key TB drug

STAT+: Pharmalittle: Court allows Medicare drug price n...

Oct 2, 2023

A federal judge allowed the new Medicare drug price negotiation program to proce...

CDC proposes new antibiotics policy aimed at reducing STIs

CDC proposes new antibiotics policy aimed at reducing STIs

Oct 2, 2023

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is proposing a new policy aimed a...

STAT+: Syndax’s leukemia drug succeeds in pivotal study

STAT+: Syndax’s leukemia drug succeeds in pivotal study

Oct 2, 2023

Syndax Pharmaceuticals’ treatment for a genetically defined form of advanced leu...

STAT+: Mirum’s Chenodal succeeds in late-stage trial for rare metabolic disorder

STAT+: Mirum’s Chenodal succeeds in late-stage trial fo...

Oct 2, 2023

Mirum Pharmaceuticals reported that a recently acquired drug for cerebrotendinou...

2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine: Karikó, Weissman awarded prize for mRNA research

2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine: Karikó, Weissman awarded ...

Oct 2, 2023

Two pioneers of mRNA research — the technology that helped the world tame the vi...

STAT+: The biotech scorecard for the fourth quarter: 16 stock-moving events to watch

STAT+: The biotech scorecard for the fourth quarter: 16...

Oct 2, 2023

Here is STAT’s biotech scorecard, our regular ledger of stock-moving biotech eve...

Liquid Filling Innovations: Transforming Beverage and Pharmaceutical Industries with Capmatic

Liquid Filling Innovations: Transforming Beverage and P...

Oct 2, 2023

Discover how Capmatic's liquid filling innovations are revolutionizing the bever...

STAT+: J&J agrees not to enforce patents on a key tuberculosis drug in dozens of poor countries

STAT+: J&J agrees not to enforce patents on a key tuber...

Sep 30, 2023

Johnson & Johnson announced it would not enforce any of its patents for a key tu...

GLP-1 drugs are transforming diabetes, obesity and more. Could a Nobel be next?

GLP-1 drugs are transforming diabetes, obesity and more...

Sep 30, 2023

If the discoveries that gave us Ozempic and Mounjaro find their way to the Nobel...

Dianne Feinstein’s struggle with shingles reflects the long increase in cases

Dianne Feinstein’s struggle with shingles reflects the ...

Sep 30, 2023

“As the first chickenpox-vaccinated groups age, we expect to see a continuing de...

STAT+: Court allows Medicare drug price negotiation to proceed

STAT+: Court allows Medicare drug price negotiation to ...

Sep 30, 2023

The Chamber of Commerce’s lawsuit is the first test of a barrage of lawsuits fro...