Biotech and Pharmaceuticals
WHO declares end to Covid global public health emergency
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), speaks during a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland, December 20, 2021. Denis Balibouse | Reuters The spread of Covid-19 is no longer a global public health emergency, the World Health Organization declared on Friday. “For more than a year, the pandemic has been on a […]
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J&J’s consumer health spinoff Kenvue opens at $25.53, a 16% jump, in public market debut
Thibaut Mongon, CEO and Paul Ruh CFO of Kenvue Inc. a Johnson & Johnson’s consumer-health business, pose together during the company’s IPO at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., May 4, 2023. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Johnson & Johnson‘s consumer health spinoff Kenvue jumped 16% in its market debut on […]
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Moderna posts surprise quarterly profit despite waning demand for Covid vaccines
Moderna’s sign is seen outside of their headquarters in Cambridge, MA on March 11, 2021. Boston Globe | Getty Images Moderna on Thursday blew past estimates for first-quarter earnings and revenue, posting a surprise quarterly profit, despite lower demand for Covid vaccines, its only marketable product. The biotech company generated first-quarter sales of $1.9 billion, […]
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Novo Nordisk cuts some U.S. supply of Wegovy being overweight drug as demand soars
Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk said Thursday it was slicing the source of starter doses of its weight problems drug Wegovy in the U.S. as it struggles to preserve up with surging demand from customers. Main Economic Officer Karsten Munk Knudsen told CNBC that halving the provide of Wegovy starter doses was supposed to make certain present patients could […]
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FDA commissioner praises Eli Lilly Alzheimer’s treatment results
FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf speaks at an event celebrating hearing aids being available over the counter at a Walgreens in Washington, D.C., Oct. 19, 2022. Nathan Posner | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Food and Drug Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf praised results Eli Lilly announced Wednesday that a clinical trial showed its Alzheimer’s treatment […]
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FDA approves GSK’s RSV vaccine for older adults, world’s first shot against virus
A GSK lab in London. Oli Scarff | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved an RSV vaccine produced by GlaxoSmithKline for use on adults ages 60 and older. The approval, the first ever globally by a regulatory body for an RSV vaccine, is a decisive victory for GSK in a race […]
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J&J’s consumer health business Kenvue is going public this week. Here’s what to know
Johnson & Johnson products on a shelf in a store in New York. Lucas Jackson | Reuters Johnson & Johnson‘s consumer health business, Kenvue, is expected to go public this week in the largest U.S. IPO in more than a year. That business is chock full of household names familiar to investors and the larger […]
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CVS beats on earnings and revenue but lowers profit outlook
A CVS location in New York, US, on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023. Stephanie Keith | Bloomberg | Getty Images CVS Health on Thursday reported first-quarter results that beat earnings and revenue expectations, but the company lowered its full-year profit guidance due to costs related to recent acquisitions. Shares fell more than 1% in premarket trading […]
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Eli Lilly Alzheimer’s treatment donanemab slowed ailment progression in clinical trial
An Eli Lilly and Organization pharmaceutical production plant is pictured at 50 ImClone Drive in Branchburg, New Jersey, March 5, 2021. Mike Segar | Reuters The Alzheimer’s treatment method donanemab, which is manufactured by Eli Lilly, appreciably slowed development of the brain-robbing disease, according to scientific demo info introduced Wednesday by the firm. Individuals who […]
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Gilead Sciences battles U.S. government in court over HIV prevention patent
Gilead Sciences logo displayed on a laptop screen and medical pills are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on October 18, 2021. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Gilead Sciences and the U.S. government faced off in court Tuesday in the first day of a […]
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