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The weight loss drug market may soon get more crowded. Here are the companies trying to enter the booming space
Still life of Wegovy an injectable prescription weight loss medicine that has helped people with obesity. It should be used with a weight loss plan and physical activity. Michael Siluk | UCG | Getty Images Drugmakers have been scrambling to join a two-horse race to lead the market for popular weight loss drugs, which could […]
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Biotech and pharma companies are betting on a promising class of cancer drugs to drive growth
Medical personnel use a mammogram to examine a woman’s breast for breast cancer. Hannibal Hanschke | dpa | Picture Alliance | Getty Images SAN FRANCISCO — An established but promising group of cancer drugs was a red-hot market in 2023, and more companies could look to the treatments to fuel growth in the year ahead. […]
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If you can't build the next Ozempic, buy it: Where M&A could be heading in the obesity drug space
Investors are contemplating where and when the next big obesity drug deal will occur. At the moment, Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly have the growing obesity drug market all to themselves. But given the potential size of this opportunity, which some have put at more than $100 billion by 2030 , other pharmaceuticals companies — […]
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Pfizer’s twice-daily weight loss pill joins a long list of obesity drug flops
Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Pfizer’s twice-daily version of its experimental weight loss pill has now joined a long list of other scrapped drugs that aimed to treat obesity but came with unintended consequences. The drugmaker on Friday said it will stop developing the twice-daily treatment, danuglipron, after obese patients taking the drug […]
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CDC expedites release of more doses of infant RSV drug from Sanofi, AstraZeneca amid shortage
A RSV-infected child receives treatment, as RS-Virus infections spread among children at Missio children’s clinic Moenchberg, in Wuerzburg, Germany, December 2, 2022. Heiko Becker | Reuters The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expedited the release of more than 77,000 additional doses of a new drug designed to protect infants from respiratory syncytial virus amid […]
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French prosecutors investigating Sanofi over probable marketplace manipulation
A brand on the Sanofi exhibition area at the Viva Technological know-how meeting focused to innovation and startups at Porte de Versailles exhibition centre in Paris, France June 15, 2022. Benoit Tessier | Reuters French prosecutors have opened a preliminary investigation into multinational pharmaceutical corporation Sanofi above achievable marketplace manipulation. A judicial source verified to […]
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Sanofi to offer insulin product for $35 to all Americans through GoodRx
Sanofi Lantus brand insulin pens are arranged for a photograph in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., on Friday, April 5, 2019. Alex Flynn | Bloomberg | Getty Images Americans, regardless of their insurance status, can now access Sanofi‘s most widely prescribed insulin for $35 through the prescription drug savings company GoodRx, the companies […]
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New RSV protections for infants hit cost, insurance hurdles in U.S. rollout
A doctor vaccinates an infant against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in a treatment room of her paediatric practice. Swen Pförtner | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Two new immunizations promise to protect babies from respiratory syncytial virus – if people can find them. Providers are scrambling to offer Pfizer’s vaccine, Abrysvo, to pregnant patients and […]
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CDC advisors recommend Pfizer maternal RSV vaccine to protect infants
A doctor vaccinates an infant against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in a treatment room of her paediatric practice. Swen Pförtner | Picture Alliance | Getty Images The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s independent panel of advisors on Friday recommended Pfizer‘s maternal vaccine that protects infants from respiratory syncytial virus, the leading cause of hospitalization […]
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FDA approves Pfizer maternal RSV vaccine for infants
CFOTO | Future Publishing | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved a vaccine from Pfizer that protects infants from respiratory syncytial virus, the leading cause of hospitalization among babies in the U.S. Pfizer’s RSV shot is already approved and available in the U.S. for older adults. It’s now the second treatment […]
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