Cassava Sciences President and CEO Remi Barbier is hitting back at The New York Times, calling out the venerable newspaper for an alleged one-sided article that he claims misrepresented the research of his company by only using sources who were critical of Cassava.

Deaths associated with Astellas Pharma’s gene therapy program for patients with X-linked Myotubular Myopathy underscore some of the risks of developing potential one-and-done treatment options for serious diseases.

Axsome Therapeutics said on April 25 the company expects the U.S. health regulator to decline approval for the drug developer’s treatment of acute migraine over unresolved issues of its quality control processes, sending shares of Axsome down 20 percent.

Roche warned that Russia’s attack on Ukraine is disrupting the development of a new generation of multiple sclerosis (MS) drugs as the industry has come to disproportionately rely on Eastern Europe for clinical trials.

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A $1 billion fund backed by over 20 drugmakers made its first set of investments on April 4 in two biotechnology startups, nearly two years after it was launched to help struggling antibiotic makers tackle the threat of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

The U.S. Food and Drug administration granted priority review to Roche’s Actemra/RoActemra for the treatment of COVID-19 in hospitalized adults.

Bristol Myers Squibb announced results from an extended study to evaluate the long-term effects of taking the cardiovascular drug mavacamten.

Y-mAbs Therapeutics Inc. announced that the company completed the resubmission of its Biologics License Application (BLA) for 131I-omburtamab to the U.S. FDA.

Roche said on December 24 that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to the company’s COVID-19 at-home rapid test that can be used by people as young as 14.