Ionis Pharma's olezarsen has become the first FDA-approved drug therapy for adults with familial chylomicronaemia syndrome ...

Eli Lilly's Zepbound has become the first drug to be FDA-approved for obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), a sleep-related ...

Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly are currently a duopoly in the obesity market, which reached a value of $24 billion last year ...

A test that can be given to patients before they are prescribed a course of opioid analgesics to check whether they are at risk of becoming dependent on the drugs has been approved by the FDA.

The 21st century pharmaceutical and biotech sector has come a long way from its roots in 19th century pharmacy. pharmaphorum looks at its evolution over the centuries. The roots of the ...

We knew it was coming, and now it’s close. By the end of 2024, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to formally make reviews by a single institutional review board (sIRB) the ...

MSD and Moderna have kicked off another phase 3 trial of their personalised cancer vaccine V940 used alongside MSD's PD-1 inhibitor Keytruda, this time focusing on patients with earlier-stage non ...

In the last UK election in 2019, the NHS emerged as a major talking point, as the scale of the country’s support of the service was brought to the fore. Now, with health inequality a growing ...

The UK medicines regulator approved Eli Lilly's Alzheimer's disease therapy Kisunla today, but the drug is too expensive to be funded by the NHS, according to cost-effectiveness watchdog NICE.

The lengthening list of pharma alliances focused on molecular glue degraders has another entry after Novartis signed a deal with Monte Rosa Therapeutics worth up to $2.2 billion. The partnership ...

Indivior has secured a $111 million supply contract from the US federal government for its intranasal therapy for treating opioid overdose, in a further boost to the UK company’s fortunes.

A new study has added to data suggesting that HDL cholesterol (HDL-c) – sometimes called ‘good’ cholesterol, as it can help protect against heart disease – may be a risk factor for ...