Pharmacy Times

JANUARY 4, 2024

Perhaps ashwagandha may aid in stress management, athletic performance, and sleep, but this effect is far from definitive.

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AUGUST 17, 2023

When someone says the word embryo, what do you think of? Probably that picture you’ve seen a thousand times on a thousand different news articles: a translucent orb swelling with cytoplasm being prodded by a microinjection needle under the light of a microscope.

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AUGUST 17, 2023

There are people in your life who influence and shape how you see the world. For me, one of these people is Terry Moakley, a warm and welcoming family friend, a veteran of the Vietnam War, and a fervent advocate for people with disabilities.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Venture capital firm General Catalyst's Health Assurance Transformation Corporation (HATCo) signed a definitive agreement to buy Summa Health for $485 million, the organizations announced Thursday.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

And they were definitely failing. There it was on James Cannon’s lab report, two tiny words: African American. The words sat next to a number estimating how badly Cannon’s kidneys were failing. His number read 37, less than half of what is considered normal for adults.

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Pharmacy Times

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

This disease can, at the very least, help researchers to “identify” the floodgates to definitive tests and therapies for complex psychological and neurological diseases, expert says.

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APRIL 9, 2024

Damian here with an update on the biotech market, a look at the future of genome editing, and the evolving definition of “insider trading.”   Sign up  to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. Hello, everyone. ” Read the rest…

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Pharmacy Times

JULY 27, 2022

Researchers suggest that the current case definition of monkeypox be broadened to include genital lesions and sores on the mouth or anus as symptoms to prevent misdiagnoses.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

“And we definitely want to position Akeso as a global biotech, not just a China story.”    Now, Akeso’s leaders want you to know that its recent success isn’t a one-off.  ”  Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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Fierce Pharma

JULY 22, 2024

Agilent has revealed that it’s signed a definitive agreement to acquire Biovectra for $925 million through a mix of cash and debt financing. After changing hands several times throughout the 2010s, Canadian specialty contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) Biovectra has agreed to fly the Agilent flag.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The trial could get underway within a couple of weeks and definitely before the end of October, said Ana Maria Henao-Restrepo, who heads WHO’s R&D Blueprint effort to develop drugs, diagnostics, and vaccines to respond to outbreaks of rare and dangerous pathogens.

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The FDA Law Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

But, for software products, it is often not straightforward to address this question by simply referring to the statutory definition of a device. The first step of the device determination process is to compare the intended use and indications for use of your product against the above statutory definition of a device (see here ).

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MAY 23, 2024

Merck KGaA’s MilliporeSigma has entered a definitive agreement for the acquisition of Mirus Bio in a deal totaling $600m (€500m).

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AUGUST 23, 2024

A diagnostics company has agreed to stop selling two questionable blood tests as part of a settlement with a consumer watchdog that accused the firm of using “false and misleading advertising” to promote the products. 

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Drug Store News

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Shiseido signed a definitive agreement to acquire DDG Skincare Holdings, the owner of the Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare brand.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

Not knowing what triggers its persistent and distressing symptoms makes the condition challenging to treat; it’s hard to even say definitively who has it. Long Covid has long eluded scientists looking for its cause.

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Drug Store News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Amorepacific has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Tata Harper.

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AUGUST 14, 2024

By definition, sudden cardiac arrest seems to come out of nowhere. The most shocking cases are when young athletes collapse on the field, but this type of calamity also strikes dedicated middle-age runners, retirees whose health problems seemed well under control, adults of all ages and class.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) has signed a definitive agreement for the acquisition of Karuna Therapeutics for $14bn in cash.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

By definition, it’s a PBM. WASHINGTON — For an app that helps pharmacies in Africa manage their medicines, the term “pharmacy benefit manager” has become a dirty word. The organization, called Maisha Meds, plays the role of a middleman between international groups like USAID and the Gates Foundation and pharmacies.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The pair hope to hammer out a definitive agreement "within the coming months."

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NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Those theories have never definitively been proven. Scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology studied gain-of-function in some viruses , fueling theories that the Covid-19 pathogen was a lab leak. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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JUNE 4, 2024

We published an in-depth story on Friday about what to expect today , but here are the basics: MDMA is the first Schedule I psychedelic to be considered by the FDA — meaning that, if it’s approved, it would no longer meet the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Schedule I definition of having “no medical benefit.”

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Drug Store News

AUGUST 31, 2023

Beauty signed a definitive agreement to acquire skin care brand Naturium for $355 million in a combination of cash and stock.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Otsuka Pharmaceutical has signed a definitive arrangement agreement to acquire Mindset Pharma, in an all-cash deal worth C$80m ($59.1m).

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Pharmaceutical Technology

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

BioNTech has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Biotheus to obtain complete worldwide rights to BNT327/PM8002, a programmed death-ligand 1 and vascular endothelial growth factor A-targeting bispecific antibody.

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JULY 19, 2024

But the bill’s definition of high-risk life sciences research is overly broad and ambiguous, and duplicative of existing regulations covering agents of bioterrorism concern and dual-use research.

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JUNE 21, 2024

Kaiser Permanente’s Risant Health has named North Carolina’s Cone Health as the second acquisition target on its path toward a multisystem, multiregional value-based care entity. | The definitive agreement to purchase the $2.8 Terms and a timeline were not disclosed.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2023

. | The cross-market deal has satisfied "all regulatory reviews" and will yield an integrated, academic nonprofit system comprised of 28 hospitals, according to a Wednesday announcement of the organizations' definitive agreement.

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STAT

MAY 2, 2023

There was (and continues to be) a desperate hunger for definitive studies telling us how well specific measures would work, with specific publics, in specific settings, for specific strains of the novel and changing virus. Although the scientific community mobilized at record speeds, it could not produce studies with the desired surety.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JULY 31, 2023

Alexion has signed a definitive agreement for acquiring and licencing Pfizer’s early-stage gene therapy portfolio for rare diseases.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

AUGUST 18, 2023

Bruker has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire functional cell biology company PhenomeX for a total equity value of $108m.

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Drug Store News

AUGUST 7, 2023

The product offers 24-hour wear, length and definition via a brush that creates a 360-degree polymer sleeve around every lash.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 26, 2024

Ascension has a definitive agreement in place to offload three Northern Michigan hospitals and other facilities to MyMichigan Health. |

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Drug Store News

AUGUST 24, 2023

The moves follows Aldi's definitive agreement to acquire Winn-Dixie and Harveys Supermarket as part of a larger divestiture of Southeastern Grocers to various entities.

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European Pharmaceutical Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Definitive screening design to accelerate process characterisation Mourad Mellal, Director of Statistics, Product Development at Catalent, elucidates the role of QbD in understanding and controlling manufacturing processes.

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

Chronic disease is, by its very definition, omnipresent. But changes year to year have the potential to make certain conditions into flaming-red targets for researchers and drugmakers.

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