Joint Fight Against Cancer Can Help Re-Energize U.S.-China Ties, Kevin Rudd Says

Asia Society CEO Kevin Rudd. Photographer: Wei Leng Tay/Bloomberg © 2021 Bloomberg Finance LP Collaboration in the fight against cancer represents an important opening for the U.S. and China to re-ene...

Rigel stock soars after FDA approves leukemia treatment, 2 days after receiving delisting notice

Shares of Rigel Pharmaceuticals Inc. RIGL, +1.86% soared 39.5% in premarket trading Friday, after the biotechnology company announced Food and Drug Administration approval of its Rezlidhia leukemia tr...

FDA pulls antibody bebtelovimab because not effective against omicron BQ.1

An Eli Lilly and Company pharmaceutical manufacturing plant is pictured at 50 ImClone Drive in Branchburg, New Jersey, March 5, 2021. Mike Segar | Reuters A key monoclonal antibody used to treat peopl...

Raw Oysters Contaminated With Sapovirus May Be In 13 States

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just issued a warning about raw oysters potentially … [+] being contaminated with sapoviruses. (Photo: Getty) getty What the shuck? The U.S. Food ...

Biotech Stocks: BioMarin Scores Breakout After FDA Announcement

Biotech stock BioMarin (BMRN) gapped above a buy point and is now trading in a buy zone. X On Wednesday, shares of BioMarin gapped up over 7% in strong volume and traded above a 92.86 buy point. When ...

QURE Stock Rockets After FDA Approves Its Most Expensive Drug Ever

The Food and Drug Administration just approved its most expensive drug ever — a hemophilia B gene therapy from Carlisle Companies (CSL) and UniQure (QURE) — and QURE stock popped Wednesday. X Meanwhil...

New Lawsuit Aims To Revoke FDA Approval Of Abortion Drug

Topline Anti-abortion rights medical groups filed a federal lawsuit Friday seeking to overturn the government’s approval of abortion-inducing drugs mifepristone and misoprostol, potentially outlawing ...

FDA says lab-grown meat is safe for human consumption

Uma Valeti, CEO and founder, UPSIDE Foods speaks at the 2021 Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, October 18, 2021. David Swanson | Reuters The Food and Drug Administration...

Ardelyx stock rockets on heavy volume after positive FDA panel vote on kidney disease treatment

Shares of Ardelyx Inc. ARDX, +35.66% rocketed 75.4% on heavy volume toward a 16-month high in premarket trading Thursday, after an advisory panel of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration voted that be...

Will Amgen Stock Skyrocket Through FDA Trials?

| Getty Images Key Takeaways Amgen announced positive results from a phase I trial of its new obesity drug, AMG 133. After its earnings announcement and the trial results, Amgen stock rose more than 5...

After FDA Approval For Ovarian Cancer Drug, ImmunoGen Becomes Top Pick For This Analyst

Tuesday, the FDA granted accelerated approval for ImmunoGen Inc’s (NASDAQ: IMGN) Elahere (mirvetuximab soravtansine-gynx) for folate receptor alpha (FRα)-positive, platinum-resistant epithelial ...

FDA may approve over-the-counter naloxone nasal spray, autoinjectors

Naloxone, packaged with instructions, is one of the items given out by the Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition outreach workers. Amy Davis | Baltimore Sun | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administratio...

An Abundance Agenda For America

Statue of Liberty and New York City Skyline with Manhattan Financial District, Battery Park, Water … [+] of New York Harbor, World Trade Center, Tourboat and Blue Sky. getty Third quarter GDP gr...

FDA sees limits to omicron-booster studies from Columbia, Harvard

The Food and Drug Administration said two studies this week showing that the new omicron boosters weren’t that much better than the old shots were too small to come to any real conclusions. Scie...

omicron shots substantially boosted BA.5 antibodies in early human data

Jakub Porzycki | NurPhoto | Getty Images Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech on Thursday said their new omicron boosters substantially increased protective antibodies against the dominant omicron B...

Walmart Launches Healthcare Research Institute As Provider Footprint Grows

Walmart is launching a healthcare research institute as the retailer adds more medical care services … [+] and works to address health equity and medically underserved populations, the company a...

Altria and Juul end noncompete deal: Here’s what that means for e-cigarette sales and marketing

Altria Group Inc. said Friday it has taken a step that extricates it from its noncompete arrangement with vaping company Juul Labs Inc., freeing both companies to pursue their own strategies. In a reg...

GILD And BMY Offer A Haven In A Turbulent Market

Following another ugly market week, the average U.S. stock is now trading in Bear Market territory. Of course, such was also the case in 2020 and 2018 and 2016 and more than a few other periods throug...

Moderna asks FDA to authorize omicron Covid boosters for children as young as 6 years old

Following CDC approval for vaccination of children aged 6 months to 5 years, 4 year-old Eleanor Kahn sits with her father Alex, as nurse Jillian Mercer administers the Moderna vaccine for the coronavi...

Revance Shares Jump 18% After FDA Approves Botox Rival Daxxify

Topline Shares of Revance Therapeutics surged 18% Thursday after the company announced the Food and Drug Administration had approved Daxxify, a facial injection drug that Revance hopes will challenge ...

Steve Forbes Blasts FDA Vaping Rule

To hear the FDA and other public health officials tell it, you’d think e-cigarettes are as lethal as the traditional tobacco kind. As this segment of What’s Ahead explains, the opposite is true. The o...

U.S. Cancer Moonshot Needs Stronger Int’l Effort To Make Substantial Progress – Kevin Rudd

Kevin Rudd, president of the Asia Society, introduces Antony Blinken, U.S. Secretary of State, at … [+] George Washington University in Washington, D.C. on May 26, 2022. Photographer: Eric Lee/B...

Omicron-Specific Boosters Could Be Available By Labor Day—Here’s Who Should Get One

Topline New Covid-19 booster shots targeting the highly contagious omicron variant could be available soon after Labor Day, according to multiple reports, and all Americans 12 years and older will be ...

Pfizer-BioNTech Covid Vaccine Is 73% Effective In Young Children, Study Finds

Topline Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine is effective in preventing illness from Covid-19 in nearly three in four young children and it provides protection across Covid-19 variants, according to a n...

FDA authorizes emergency use for Novavax Covid-19 vaccine for ages 12 to 17

A box of the Novavax Covid-19 vaccine arranged at a pharmacy in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania, US, on Monday, Aug. 1, 2022. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Biotechnology company Novavax announced o...

Three Cheers For Over-The-Counter Hearing Aids

I coauthored this piece with Drew Keyes, the senior policy analyst at Paragon Health Institute. This past week, the Food and Drug Administration finally took the commonsense step to allow patients to ...

Axsome Stock Is Flying as Fast-Acting Depression Drug Wins FDA Approval

Text size The decision on the drug came a bit less than a year after the FDA’s self-imposed deadline on making a call had passed. Dreamstime The Food and Drug Administration issued a long-awaite...

Best Buy to sell OTC hearing aid devices after FDA regulation

Black Friday shoppers leave a Best Buy store in Washington, DC, on November 26, 20221. Nicholas Kamm | AFP | Getty Images Best Buy said Wednesday that it will offer an expanded collection of hearing p...

Curing Cancer Takes A Global Village: Cancer Moonshot Pathways

BeiGene CEO John Oyler BeiGene Note: President Joe Biden in February launched a “Cancer Moonshot” initiative that aims to reduce the death rate from cancer by 50% in the next 25 years. This is a part ...

FDA expands monkeypox vaccine authorization to increase dose supply five-fold

A health worker administers a dose of the Bavarian Nordic A/S Jynneos monkeypox vaccine at a vaccination site in West Hollywood, California, on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022. Jill Connelly | Bloomberg | Get...

FDA Will Reportedly Change Dose Of Monkeypox Vaccine To Stretch Supplies

Topline The Biden administration plans to issue an emergency declaration as soon as Tuesday afternoon to allow healthcare workers to extract five vaccines from a one-dose Jynneos monkeypox vaccine via...

Recall Of 53 Beverage And Nutritional Products For Potential Cronobacter Contamination

The Lyons Magnus, LLC, recall has included various oat milk products such as Oatly Oat-Milk Barista … [+] Edition and other non-dairy beverages. (Photo: Getty) getty Lyons Magnus, LLC, is volunt...