The seismic crumbling of U.S. federal abortion protection shocked the nation last summer. From wide ranging personal responses to corporate promises of abortion assistance, the landscape for reproductive health is experiencing unprecedented change. Evolving…
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Patients whose blood cancer advances after initial treatments have one last therapeutic option: the engineering of their immune cells into a living medicine. But cancer is crafty and it often finds a way to…
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Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) are being targeted yet again by the government. James Comer (R-Ky), House Committee on Oversight and Accountability chairman, launched an investigation Wednesday into PBMs and their “tactics that are harming…
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Life-sciences companies faced fewer class-action securities lawsuits last year, continuing a trend of declining litigation over the last few years, according to a report published in February by the law firm Dechert LLP.Investors filed…
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The pain drug market has many products, but there’s still a need for pills with better properties, such as avoiding addiction. Eli Lilly sees potential in the non-opioid pain drug research from Confo Therapeutics…
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The biggest threats employers are facing right now include high-cost pharmacy claims, medical inflation and million dollar treatments being approved by the Food and Drug Administration, a Wednesday survey found.
The report was conducted by…
Liz Kost, an employee at soap company Dr. Bronner’s, was stuck in a difficult place mentally after the Covid-19 pandemic hit. She tried traditional forms of therapy, such as talk therapy, but it was…
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MorphoSys, a company whose research has yielded programs placed with big pharmaceutical companies and upstart biotechs, is stopping all preclinical work to focus on cancer, particularly a late-stage drug candidate it acquired in a…
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As a health economist, researcher in evidence-based medicine, and consultant to biopharma executives, I am no stranger to data. We all want more of it, to make sense of it, and to use it…
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While 73% of benefits leaders believe their companies have increased mental health support, only half of managers and supervisors agree, a new survey shows. About 40% of employees don’t believe or are unsure if…
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