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STAT+: NYU professors who defended vaping didn’t disclose ties to Juul, documents show

STAT

Abrams, a frequent commentator about vaping in the news media, including CBS This Morning, CNN, and The New Yorker, coordinated extensively with Juul on public messaging in 2017 and 2018, according to company emails.

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STAT+: How sickle cell became the first disease treated by CRISPR

STAT

  The document was supposed to help Novak, then the chief executive of CRISPR Therapeutics, navigate a pressing quandary. “We looked at anything and everything,” said Novak, who stepped down as CEO in 2017 but remained on the board until this year.  But which should they target first?

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STAT+: SEC wants to know if key supplier of research monkeys bribed foreign officials

STAT

The company — which is a major supplier of non-human primates to corporate, government, and academic research laboratories — received a voluntary request last May for documents dating back to December 2017 about importing non-human primates from Asia, according to a regulatory filing. ( See page 42.)

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STAT+: Brazil dismisses antitrust complaint against Gilead over pricing for a hepatitis C drug

STAT

This purportedly contributed to nearly 6,000 deaths from the disease between 2015 and 2017, according to documents filed with the Administrative Council for Economic Defense. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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STAT+: Pharmalittle: Chinese drugmakers develop copycat weight loss drugs; SEC eyes supplier of research monkeys

STAT

 The company — which is a major supplier of non-human primates to corporate, government, and academic research laboratories — received a voluntary request last May for documents dating back to December 2017 about importing non-human primates from Asia, according to a regulatory filing.

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The race for a new class of antibiotics

European Pharmaceutical Review

A study on the surge of new antimicrobial research has shown that despite almost a quarter of a million research papers (227,808) being published on the 12 bacterial families in the World Health Organization (WHO) global priority pathogen list of antibiotic-resistant bacteria from 2017, no new class of antibiotics has gone to market since 1987.

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When Worlds Collide: The Theory of Real-World Evidence Meets Reality

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

It was Congress that intervened in 2022, to mandate FDA to issue or revise its 2017 guidance on considerations for the use of RWD and RWE to support regulatory decision-making for devices to clarify its regulatory expectations. This guidance, when finalized, will replace the original version of this document finalized in 2017.