The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Bristol Myers Squibb’s oral heart disease drug, making Camzyos (mavacamten) the first cardiac myosin inhibitor to be permitted for use in the country.

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

Only a year after buying cancer specialist Celgene for $74 billion, Bristol Myers Squibb announced the acquisition of cardiology company MyoKardia for about $13.1 billion.

Acer Therapeutics in-licensed the clinical-stage, selective, non-peptide tachykinin NK3 receptor antagonist osanetant from Sanofi. MyoKardia regained global rights to all the programs that the company had inked with Sanofi.