The News: Government health experts recently recommended broader use of a prescription-strength fish oil drug to help many more patients at risk for heart attack, stroke and related health problems…. Read more »
The News: Warren Buffett says his joint venture with Jeff Bezos and Jamie Dimon is going for something bigger than shaving a few percentage points off healthcare costs. The big… Read more »
The News: Recuperating from a trial flop involving its lead drug for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Catabasis Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Cambridge MA) is charging ahead with a late-stage study, hyping new data… Read more »
The News: Pfizer Inc. (NYC) on Monday (September 25, 2017) announced that it is spinning off a new company, SpringWorks Therapeutics LLC, to develop several drugs for rare diseases that… Read more »
The News: Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s (Cambridge MA) RNAi-based drug that targets a rare genetic disease cleared a key study, in a breakthrough for the new class of medicines that works… Read more »
The News: Merck KGaA (Darmstadt DEU) put its consumer-health unit on the block Tuesday (September 5, 2017) in a move that will focus its healthcare activities on the riskier business… Read more »
The News: UnitedHealth Group Inc.’s (Minnetonka MN) second-quarter earnings jumped 11% to beat analysts’ expectations even though the nation’s largest health insurer took a bigger hit than expected from coverage… Read more »
The News: US President Donald Trump urged Republican senators on Friday (June 30, 2017) to repeal Obamacare immediately if they cannot agree on a new healthcare plan to replace it,… Read more »
US healthcare stocks posted sharp gains last week, with pharma, hospitals and insurers climbing after Senate Republicans released a draft bill to scrap Obamacare, while a recent explosion in biotech… Read more »
The News: Just ahead of the year’s biggest download of cancer data, the maker of a closely watched drug has put itself up for sale, according to The Wall Street… Read more »
