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AbbVie's Recently Acquired Parkinson's Drug Meets Third Study Goal

Data from a late-stage study shows that treatment with flexible doses of ABBV's tavapadon reduced the burden of Parkinson's disease.

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Biogen Stock Declines 21.4% in 3 Months: How to Play the Stock

Though there is uncertainty about Biogen's sales and profits improving significantly, investors can hold the stock given the potential of its new drugs.

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Novartis Announces Positive Results From Late-Stage Study on Fabhalta

NVS' Fabhalta improves the average hemoglobin level compared to baseline in adult patients with PNH who switched from anti-C5 therapies.

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Incyte's Late-stage NSCLC Study Meets Primary and Secondary Goals

INCY's phase III study, evaluating retifanlimab in combination with platinum-based chemotherapy for the treatment of metastatic non-small cell lung cancer, meets primary and secondary endpoints.

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FDA Accepts GSK's Filing for Expanded Use of Nucala in COPD

The FDA accepts GSK's regulatory filing seeking the expanded use of Nucala in COPD treatment for review.

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Beam Therapeutics Appoints Sravan Emany as New CFO, Shares Up

BEAM appoints Sravan K. Emany as its new chief financial officer, effective Dec. 19. Shares rise on this leadership transition.

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Here's Why Summit Therapeutics Stock Price Rose 6% on Friday

SMMT stock rose after analysts at Jefferies initiated coverage on it, citing optimism about the company's lead pipeline drug.

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AFMD Stock Down Despite FDA's RMAT Status for Lymphoma Therapy

The FDA bestows a Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy tag to Affimed's acimtamig in combination with AlloNK for treating Hodgkin lymphoma. Shares fall.

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Eli Lilly to Invest $3B in Wisconsin Plant to Meet Obesity Drug Demand

Per Lilly, this is its single-largest manufacturing investment in the country outside its home state. It plans to start construction on the expansion next year.

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Denali Starts Dosing in Phase II Parkinson's Disease Study

DNLI begins dosing in the phase IIa study on BIIB122 in approximately 50 participants with Parkinson's disease and LRRK2 pathogenic mutations confirmed by genetic testing.

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TARA Stock Soars on Superior Efficacy of Bladder Cancer Cell Therapy

Protara stock surges 70% as investigational cell therapy, TARA-002, shows superior six-month efficacy in phase II bladder cancer study.

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Novavax to Sell Czech Manufacturing Plant to Novo Nordisk for $200M

NVAX intends to use the payment from Novo to advance the development of its vaccine pipeline. The deal is expected to be closed by the end of this year.

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GSK Expands Vaccine Collaboration With Zhifei in China

GSK expands the licensing deal with Zhifei to market its shingles vaccine in China for an additional eight years till 2034.

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STOK Shares Up on FDA's Breakthrough Tag for Dravet Syndrome Drug

The FDA bestows a Breakthrough Therapy designation to Stoke Therapeutics' zorevunersen for the treatment of Dravet syndrome. Stock rises.

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FDA Accepts Roche's Columvi sBLA for Expanded Use in Lymphoma

The FDA accepts RHHBY's sBLA seeking the label expansion of Columvi to include the treatment of second-line R/R DLBCL for review.

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Merck's ADC Drug Gets FDA Breakthrough Therapy Tag in NSCLC

This is the first breakthrough therapy designation granted to MRK's sacituzumab tirumotecan in the United States.

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Cytokinetics Initiates Confirmatory Study on Heart Failure Drug

CYTK opens enrollment in the phase III COMET-HF study on omecamtiv mecarbil in patients with symptomatic heart failure with severely reduced ejection fraction.

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PCRX Receives New Patent for Lead Pain Drug Exparel in the US

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office grants a new patent to protect the chemical composition of Pacira's lead pain-management drug, Exparel.

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ITCI Submits sNDA to the FDA for Expanded Use of Caplyta in MDD

Intra-Cellular submits an sNDA to the FDA, seeking the label expansion of Caplyta to treat MDD in adults as an adjunctive therapy to antidepressants.

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Gilead Collaborates With German Biotech Tubulis for Solid Tumor ADC

GILD and Germany-based Tubulis collaborate to discover and develop an antibody-drug conjugate against a solid tumor target.

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JANX Stock Hits Record High on Prostate Cancer Study Data

An early-stage study data shows that treatment with Janux's JANX007 generates deep and durable efficacy responses in heavily pretreated patients with mCRPC.

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RZLT Stock Rises on FDA's Orphan Designation for Rare Disease Drug

The FDA bestows an Orphan Drug status to Rezolute's ersodetug for treating hypoglycemia due to tumor hyperinsulinism. Shares rise.

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Amgen Stock Falls 12% in a Month: Should You Buy the Dip?

AMGN's reasonable valuation, an interesting pipeline and continued top-line growth are good enough reasons to stay invested in the stock for now.

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Novartis In-Licenses PTCT's Huntington's Disease Drug for $2.9 Billion

NVS is all set to strengthen its neuroscience pipeline with the addition of PTCT's Huntington's disease drug.

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FDA Accepts Cytokinetics' Application for Cardiovascular Drug

CYTK's NDA is seeking approval for the lead pipeline candidate, aficamten, which the FDA accepted and assigned a target action date of Sept. 26, 2025.

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