The News: Nasdaq-listed Chinese biotech BeiGene Ltd. (Beijing) has raised an astounding $903 million after pricing its secondary listing in Hong Kong–the first under new exchange rules–near the top of… Read more »
The News: Two Chinese biotechs recently scrapped plans to list in New York and instead aim to raise up to $800 million in Hong Kong IPOs, seeking to cash in… Read more »
A European decision to exclude Britain from the EU’s drug approval system from beginning 30, 2019–the day after Brexit–has raised alarm among drugmakers, who fear the abrupt change could disrupt… Read more »
The News: A former Insys Therapeutics Inc. (Chandler AZ) sales representative was recently sentenced to six months of home confinement after admitting that she participated in a scheme to pay… Read more »
The News: Maziar Hashemi, a naturalized US citizen who has lived in the US since the 1970s, has been told by doctors that his best hope for surviving a rare… Read more »
The News: Women are more likely to develop breast cancer when a mother or sister had this disease, and the risk associated with family history doesn’t diminish regardless of age,… Read more »
The News: Nearly two-thirds of US doctors feel burned out, depressed, or both–and those feelings affect how they relate to patients, according to a survey conducted by Medscape. “One in… 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: Nearly three in five children in the US today are destined to be obese when they reach their 35th birthday, according to a new projection that Reuters reports…. Read more »
The News: Pfizer Inc. (NYC) and its German partner Merck KGaA (Darmstadt) have run into a brick wall in their race to expand the market for their PD-L1 checkpoint inhibitor Bavencio… Read more »
