Datavant, Clarify Health

Clarify Health, a leading cloud analytics and value-based payments platform company, and Datavant, the leader in helping organizations securely connect health data, today announced an expanded collaboration to enable life sciences companies to connect their proprietary, first-party data in Clarify’s AI-powered Atlas analytics platform to improve clinical development and commercial operations.

Pfizer, BioNTech logo

Pending authorization, the Omicron BA.4/BA.5-adapted bivalent vaccine will be available to ship immediately. A conditional marketing authorization application has also been initiated with the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for the Omicron BA.4/BA.5-adapted bivalent vaccine and is expected to be completed in the coming days.

Amazon building

Amazon, UnitedHealth, and CVS are bidding separately for home health services provider Signify Health Inc (SGFY.N), Bloomberg News reported on Sunday, citing people with knowledge of the matter.

Mike Myers, CrowdPharm

Three healthcare agencies have once again found themselves on the Inc. 5000 list in 2022 – CrowdPharm; Peregrine Market Access; and Rare Patient Voice. The Inc. 5000 ranks the nation’s fastest-growing private companies.

Inizio

Inizio, a strategic partner for health and life sciences with a full suite of advisory, medical, marketing, communications, and patient and stakeholder engagement services, appointed two key strategic hires.

Zantac

The news came days after shares of GlaxoSmithKline Plc, Sanofi SA, Pfizer Inc, and Haleon Plc were hit by mounting investor concern about thousands of lawsuits claiming the drug, which U.S. regulators pulled from the market in 2020, causes cancer.

Endo

Endo International Plc filed for bankruptcy on Tuesday after reaching a $6 billion deal with some of its creditors, as the U.S. drugmaker seeks to settle thousands of lawsuits over its alleged role in the country’s opioid epidemic.

FDA

The agency said it received more than 48,000 reports of faulty Dutch medical equipment maker Philips’ ventilators and respiratory devices between May and July of this year.

Evoke Pharma, Eversana

Patients with symptoms of diabetic gastroparesis now have direct-to-patient treatment support powered by UpScriptHealth.

Patrick Beers, VMLY&R HEALTH

This latest leadership hire further advances the agency’s expanding health offering under its connected brands positioning.