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SCOTUS’ abortion pill mifepristone case is really about the FDA

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear opening arguments in an abortion medication case that pharmaceutical companies warn could upend the industry and paralyze new drug development.

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AI to revolutionise drug development by 2026

European Pharmaceutical Review

Initial data from the CPHI Annual Report 2023, which provides insight from 250 global pharmaceutical companies, reveals that AI (artificial intelligence) is expected to transform every area of the industry, from drug discovery through to drug development , within the next 24-months. Attending CPHI Barcelona 2023?

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Pursuing new paths in targeted protein degradation drug development

European Pharmaceutical Review

DRUG DEVELOPMENT based on targeted protein degradation (TPD) has progressed rapidly since the publication in 2015 of three landmark papers 1-3 that highlighted important early-stage breakthroughs with drug-like molecules in this area of research.

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Top U.S. addiction researcher calls GLP-1 data for addiction ‘very, very exciting’

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Early data regarding the use of GLP-1 medications like Ozempic and Wegovy to treat addiction is “very, very, exciting,” Nora Volkow, the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, said Thursday. drug crisis with urgency.

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STAT+: A ‘blank check’: Bill to boost antibiotic development blasted as a ‘flawed’ giveaway to pharma

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The legislation, known as the Pasteur Act, would encourage drug development by creating a subscription-style business model in which the U.S. The idea is to enable pharmaceutical companies to recover their costs and make an appropriate profit without having to sell large volumes of antibiotics.

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STAT+: Animal rights group urges SEC to investigate Charles River over monkey purchases

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A leading animal rights group has asked securities regulators to investigate Charles River Laboratories for allegedly misleading investors about its sales and purchases of long-tailed macaques, which are widely used in clinical research by pharmaceutical companies and universities, among others.

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Opinion: FDA: Ignore a pharma company’s deceptive racial equity argument for keeping Makena, an ineffective preterm labor drug

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In an effort to sway the Food and Drug Administration not to withdraw accelerated approval of Makena, a drug developed to prevent preterm birth that does no such thing, a pharmaceutical company owned by a private equity company is making the specious argument that the drug should be kept on the market because it may — the emphasis is mine — (..)