The News: The drug industry has taken heat from patient advocates and a US senator for handing out its tax savings to shareholders instead of using its windfall to help patients… Read more »
The News: When it comes to pharma partners, doctors prefer quality digital content, according to a new report. While that comes as no surprise and makes sense, new research shows… Read more »
The News: Denmark’s Novo Nordisk A/S (Copenhagen), the world’s biggest insulin maker, went public Monday (January 8, 2018) with a €2.6-billion ($3.1 billion) bid for Belgian biotech group Ablynx NV… Read more »
The News: Celgene Corp. (Summit NJ) plummeted 20% Thursday (October 26, 2017) to $99.99 after releasing third-quarter earnings. And it wasn’t so much third-quarter revenue, which was up 10% year over year,… Read more »
The News: It’s been a few years since the US government unveiled its Open Payments (OP) database, a collection of drug and device makers’ payments to healthcare providers. The data-collection… Read more »
Steve’s Take: As another jam-packed annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago wrapped up on Tuesday (June 6, 2017), with some 38,000 oncologists gathering together at… Read more »
The NASDAQ Biotech Index got hammered in 2016–-but mostly due to the market melting in January 2016. The Nasdaq Biotech Index collapsed 28% in the opening weeks of 2016 and… Read more »
The population of the world, and the US and developed nations in particular, is growing and getting older, while the costs of keeping people healthy and living longer are exploding…. Read more »
In a historic vote Thursday, Britain has decided to leave the European Union. And, swallowing hard, financial markets around the world are not taking the news very well. Stateside, the Dow… Read more »
