A judge in Hawaii ordered Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and Sanofi SA to pay more than $834 million to the state for failing to warn non-white patients properly of health risks from the blood thinner Plavix.
Much of the attention on Pfizer, BioNTech, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca has been on their Covid-19 vaccine efforts, and here is a look at what else is going on with these companies.
Anthos Therapeutics is developing next-generation anticoagulants that do not have the bleeding risks that current blood thinners have.
Severe Covid-19 riskier than heart attack for young adults; antibiotic shows no benefit
African-Americans, Antibiotics, Antimalarial, Azithromycin, Clinical Studies, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), Heart Attacks, Hispanics, Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients, Hydroxychloroquine, Lung Damage, Middle-Aged Adults, R&D, Surveys, Young AdultsA roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for Covid-19, the illness caused by the virus.
FDA approval for Brilinta, EU recommendation for Lynparza
Approvals, Blockbusters, BRCA mutation, Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP), Coronavirus Vaccines, European Medicines Agency, FDA, FDA/Regulatory, Heart Attacks, Metastatic pancreatic cancer, New Indications, Product Pipeline, Shares, StrokesBritain’s AstraZeneca clinched expanded regulatory backing for two medications, including one for the blockbuster cancer treatment Lynparza, in a development pipeline that now includes a possible coronavirus vaccine.
Spring Bank Pharmaceuticals, based in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, is discontinuing development of inarigivir soproxil for chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV).
U.S. health regulators approved expanding the heart benefit claims Amarin Corp. can make in promoting the company’s drug Vascepa to include reducing the risk of heart attacks and strokes in high-risk patients, opening a multibillion-dollar market opportunity.
A panel of experts to the U.S. FDA recommended allowing Amarin Corp. Plc’s fish-oil derived drug to be used as an add-on therapy for reducing the chance of heart attacks and strokes in high-risk patients with cardiovascular disease.
Amarin Corp. Plc’s fish oil-derived drug and potential blockbuster Vascepa received a largely positive review from FDA staffers.
New Pharma Invention Index Picks AstraZeneca as Top Company
Artificial Intelligence, Business, Cancer, Cardiovascular (CV) Death, Chronic Kidney Disease, Coronary Heart Diseases, Heart Attacks, Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, Invention, Machine Learning, Oncology, Product Pipelines, Strokes, Type 2 DiabetesAstraZeneca topped the first annual Pharmaceutical Invention Index, released by IDEA Pharma.