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Pfizer buys Seagen for $43B, boosts access to cancer drugs
Pfizer will spend $43 billion to buy Seagen and deepen its reach into treating cancer. The pharmaceutical giant said Monday that it will pay $229 in cash for each Seagen share. Bothell, Washington-bas...
Ram EV pickup debuts in Super Bowl ad spoofing sex drugs ads
Ram’s 2023 Super Bowl ad debuts the production version of the Ram 1500 REV electric pickup that is expected to go on sale late-next year. Screenshot DETROIT – Stellantis will air a 60-second Sup...
Knockoff Lotions, Weight Loss Drugs, Chinese News Sites: Inside Alameda’s Investment Portfolio
In the months preceding FTX’s spectacular demise, reports revealed that the crypto exchange secretly diverted some $4 billion in company funds to prop up its struggling sister trading firm, Alameda Re...
U.S.-Bound Coconuts Stuffed With 660 Pounds Of Drugs Seized
Topline Authorities in Mexico seized a truck full of more than 660 pounds of what they say appears to be fentanyl stored in coconuts not far from the U.S. border, the Mexican Attorney General’s Office...
Mark Cuban Has Taken On Pharmacy Benefit Managers And Forever Disrupted Healthcare In America
Mark Cuban speaking at Life Itself with Sanjay Gupta. Marc Hodosh Imagine finding out that there is a drug on the market for your terminal disease. The only issue, however, is the million-dollar price...
In 2022, China Dominates U.S. Exports Of Immunological Drugs, Plasma And Vaccines
China purchases of U.S. exports in the category that includes immunological medicines have surged … [+] since 2019. The category also includes vaccines, plasma and other blood fractions. ustrade...
An Alzheimer’s Drug’s Big Surprise: What It Means
Until this past week, there seemed to be no answers to the Alzheimer’s puzzle. The leading theory of the disease, that it was caused by a buildup of beta amyloid plaque in the brain, had been disprove...
New UK Crypto Bill Aims to Tackle ‘Profits From Fraud, Drugs, and Cybercrime’
The U.K. government has introduced a new bill to prevent money laundering and fraud. The bill also covers some aspects related to crypto. The United Kingdom has introduced a new bill that will focus o...
First ‘Babylon’ Trailer Is Filled With Sex, Drugs And Oscar Hopes
ParamountPARA dropped the first trailer for Damien Chazelle’s Babylon this morning. It’s a rare red-band trailer, with actual nudity and hard profanity although minimal violence amid the tale of Holly...
Sex, Drugs, Guns and Web3
For CoinDesk’s Sin Week, we’ll be exploring the clash of old-world finance and crypto, how Web3 can help (or not help) illicit or at least pariah industries like weed, porn, guns and gambling. In none...
AbbVie Stock: AbbVie Leans On Immunology Drugs As Covid Slams Aesthetics
AbbVie (ABBV) leaned heavily on immunology drugs in the second quarter, helping offset declines for its biggest blood cancer medicine and several aesthetic treatments. But AbbVie stock fell early Frid...
Pharmacies Must Fill Prescriptions For Pregnancy-Ending Drugs, Biden Administration Says
Topline Retail pharmacies must fill prescriptions for drugs that can terminate pregnancies under federal civil rights law, the Department of Health and Human Services said Wednesday afternoon, as stat...
41-Year-Old Man Who Sold Drugs for Crypto Gets Nine Years in Jail
A West Yorkshire resident, Simon Barclay, has been convicted of drug trafficking worth millions of pounds on the dark web with cryptocurrency proceeds. Man Pleads Guilty to Drug Deals Involving Crypto...
Pfizer Offers Low-Cost Drugs And Vaccines—Including Covid Treatments—To World’s Poorest Countries
Topline Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer on Wednesday said it will make its entire portfolio of patented medicines and vaccines available to low-income countries on a not-for-profit basis in a bid to narro...
Pfizer Turns to Unusual Deal Structure to Buy Biohaven Drugs
(Bloomberg) — Pfizer Inc.’s $11.6 billion acquisition of Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Co. included a rarely used structure that could become a larger part of Big Pharma’s playbook in light of...
Warren Buffett Stocks That Are Holding Up Well During This Sell-Off
financial graph getty These 3 value stocks held by Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger in their Berkshire Hathaway BRK.A portfolio are holding up better than the big name, big tech stocks in the NASDAQ ...
Biotech Stock Nkarta Skyrockets; How Its Natural Killer Cancer Drugs Did Their Job
Nkarta (NKTX) announced promising results from two studies in blood cancer patients on Monday, leading the tiny biotech stock to score a triple-digit gain. X The company tested its “natural kill...
Opioids More Likely To Kill Than Car Crashes Or Suicide [Infographic]
The advent of Covid-19 has added another deadly disease to the National Safety Council’s list of the things that are most likely to kill Americans, but another detail on the newest release of th...
K-Drama ‘Hope Or Dope’ Is About Hope More Than It’s About Drugs
The teens in ‘Hope or Dope’ all find themselves in an untenable situation. Seezn Despite the “Just Say No” title, Hope or Dope is not focused on the evils of any particular drug, except to...
Australian Police Seized $4.7 million, Bitcoin ATMs And Drugs in a Sydney Storage Facility
Australian Police forces have joined hands with United States federal authorities to get hold of a group of men alleged of narcotics distribution and money laundering. On Sunday afternoon, as part of...
Crypto And Cocaine Down Under: Australian Cops Seize Bitcoin ATMs And Drugs In Sydney Warehouse
These days, cryptocurrency, drugs and other banned stuff go hand in hand. In Australia, police joined forces with federal authorities in the United States to apprehend a group of men accused of money ...
NSW Police Seize Cash, Drugs, and Crypto ATMs in Joint Operation
In a multi-agency operation that involved the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, police seized three crypto teller machines, five kilograms of drugs, and millions of dollars of money in Sydney’s So...
Biogen Stock: Will The $8 Billion Opportunity Materialize For Alzheimer’s Drugs?
Biogen stock popped Thursday after an analyst suggested the biotech company could reap $8 billion in sales of its Alzheimer’s treatments — assuming everything lines up properly. X But hours late...
Former Angels Employee Convicted of Distributing Drugs That Caused MLB Pitcher Tyler Skaggs’Death
Former Los Angeles Angels communications director Eric Kay walks outside Texas federal court during … [+] his trial on drug distribution and conspiracy charges connected to the overdose death of...
Russian Skater Kamila Valieva Reportedly Tested Positive For 3 Heart Drugs
Topline Kamila Valieva, a 15-year-old Russian figure skater who sparked a possible doping scandal at the 2022 Olympics, tested positive for three drugs used to treat heart conditions—one of which is b...