Biotech and Pharmaceuticals
Healthy Returns: Sales of Humira are plunging, but AbbVie has two promising successors
Humira, the injectable rheumatoid arthritis treatment is pictured in a pharmacy in Cambridge, Massachusetts. JB Reed | Bloomberg | Getty Images Think a friend or colleague should be getting this newsletter? Share this link with them to sign up. Good morning! Sales of AbbVie‘s Humira are plummeting as the once-top-selling drug fights competition from cheaper […]
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Johnson & Johnson will pay $6.5 billion to resolve nearly all talc ovarian cancer lawsuits in U.S.
Johnson & Johnson on Wednesday said it will pay $6.5 billion to settle nearly all of the thousands of lawsuits in the U.S. claiming its talc-based products caused ovarian cancer. The deal would allow J&J to resolve the lawsuits through a third bankruptcy filing of a subsidiary company, LTL Management. More CNBC health coverage It […]
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Pfizer beats revenue estimates, raises profit outlook on cost cuts and strong non-Covid sales
Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Pfizer on Wednesday reported first-quarter revenue that beat expectations and hiked its full-year profit outlook, benefitting from its broad cost-cutting program and strong sales of its non-Covid products. The company now expects to book adjusted earnings of $2.15 to $2.35 per share for the fiscal year, up from […]
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CVS posts big earnings miss, cuts profit outlook on higher medical costs
A person walks by a CVS Pharmacy store in Manhattan, New York, on Nov. 15, 2021. Andrew Kelly | Reuters CVS Health on Wednesday reported first-quarter revenue and adjusted earnings that missed expectations and slashed its full-year profit outlook, citing higher medical costs that are dogging the U.S. insurance industry. Shares of the company dropped […]
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Citi names 3 biotech stocks to play a expanding $2.9 billion chance — supplying a person about 50% upside
The outlook is beginning to search dazzling for biotech shares, according to some. With markets now anticipating the initially level reduce to be in September instead than June or July, as beforehand assumed, biotech shares could begin to do effectively. Before this thirty day period, Morgan Stanley analysts famous that biotech stocks outperform in the […]
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FTC challenges ‘junk’ patents held by 10 drugmakers, including for Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic
A box of Ozempic and contents sit on a table in Dudley, North Tyneside, Britain, October 31, 2023. Lee Smith | Reuters The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday said it is challenging hundreds of alleged “junk” patents held by pharmaceutical companies for 20 brand-name drugs, including Novo Nordisk’s blockbuster drugs Ozempic, Saxenda and Victoza. The […]
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Eli Lilly beats on quarterly profit, hikes full-year guidance on strong sales of Zepbound, Mounjaro
Eli Lilly logo is shown on one of the company’s offices in San Diego, California, U.S., September 17, 2020. Mike Blake | Reuters Eli Lilly on Tuesday reported first-quarter adjusted profit that topped Wall Street’s expectations and hiked its full-year guidance on strong sales of its blockbuster diabetes drug Mounjaro and newly launched weight loss […]
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Walmart to shutter health centers, virtual care service in latest failed push into health care
Walmart on Tuesday said it will close all of its health-care clinics across the country, a stunning reversal of its plans to bring its low-priced reputation to the dentist and doctor’s office along with the grocery aisle. The big-box retailer said it would also shutter its telehealth provider, which it acquired for an undisclosed amount […]
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Judge rejects J&J, Bristol Myers Squibb challenges to Medicare drug-price negotiations
Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images A federal judge in New Jersey on Monday rejected Johnson & Johnson‘s and Bristol Myers Squibb‘s legal challenges to the Biden administration’s Medicare drug-price negotiations, ruling that the program is constitutional. The decision is another win for the White House in a bitter legal fight with several drugmakers […]
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A CVS pharmacy in Vegas becomes first to join new national pharmacy union
The CVS pharmacy logo is displayed on a sign above a CVS Health Corp. store in Las Vegas, Nevada on February 7, 2024. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images A CVS in Las Vegas has become the first location to join a new national pharmacy union, a milestone as organizers try to help […]
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