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Exclusive-Pfizer, BioNTech halt US COVID vaccine study after recruitment struggles

By Bhanvi Satija LONDON, April 1 (Reuters) - Vaccine makers Pfizer and BioNTech halted a large U.S. trial of their updated COVID-19 vaccine in healthy adults aged 50 to 64, saying enrollment in the trials had been too low to generate the needed data. In a ...
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FDA grants speedy approval to Eli Lilly’s weight-loss pill for obesity

Federal regulators on Wednesday approved Eli Lilly's new weight-loss pill, a second daily oral medication to treat obesity and other weight-related conditions. The Food and Drug Administration granted expedited approval to orforglipron, a GLP-1 drug that works like widely used injectable medications to mimic a ...
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Illini Final Four trip expected to benefit University of Illinois, state of Indiana

(The Center Square) - A University of Illinois professor says the economic benefit of the school's mens basketball team reaching the NCAA Final Four will easily outweigh the potential costs. ...
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Rare disease advocacy group urges Trump administration to restore FDA clarity

April 1 (Reuters) - A rare disease advocacy coalition on Wednesday urged the Trump administration to restore regulatory clarity as it considers new leadership at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. Dr. Vinay Prasad, the center's current incumbent, is ...
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Belgian court orders Poland, Romania to buy $2.2 billion of Pfizer COVID vaccines

BRUSSELS, April 1 (Reuters) - A Belgian court on Wednesday ordered Poland and Romania to take delivery of 1.9 billion euros ($2.2 billion) worth of COVID-19 vaccines made by U.S. drugmaker Pfizer. Pfizer sued Poland and Romania in late 2023 in a Belgian court to ...
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Fifteen deaths are confirmed after measles outbreak in Bangladesh

DHAKA, April 1 (Reuters) - A measles outbreak in Bangladesh has led to 15 confirmed deaths, officials said on Wednesday, as the government readies to launch an emergency immunisation programme as part of efforts to try to contain the disease. Health Services Division Secretary Kamruzzaman ...
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Warming winters lead to more nitrate pollution in the drinking water near farms

When pollution gets bad enough in the rivers supplying Iowa's largest city with drinking water, it costs Des Moines around $16,000 a day to run a special system to filter out dangerous nitrates. It's a fact of life in the agriculture-dependent state - and ...
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HKTVmall parent firm defends research into preserving detached animal heads and limbs

By Jessie Pang HONG KONG, April 1 (Reuters) - Hong Kong Technology Venture Company, the parent of online retailer HKTVmall, has disclosed experiments in which animal limbs and heads were kept viable for hours after being detached from the body - work it says is ...
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AI-led selloff in contract research firms may be misjudging disruption risk

By Kamal Choudhury and Siddhi Mahatole March 31 (Reuters) - Shares of contract research organizations have tumbled on fears that advances in artificial intelligence could allow drugmakers to take clinical trial work in-house, but industry experts say the selloff overestimates how far the technology can ...
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British drug-cost watchdog recommends use of Novo’s Wegovy to lower heart risks

April 1 (Reuters) - UK's drug cost-effectiveness watchdog has recommended Novo Nordisk's Wegovy to reduce the risk of serious heart problems or strokes in obese or overweight adults, becoming the first GLP-1 drug to be endorsed for this use. With the recommendation from the National ...
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US FDA is expected to lift restriction on certain peptides, NYT reports

March 31 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is moving toward allowing compounding pharmacies to produce more than a dozen injectable peptides that were banned because of potentially significant safety risks, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing a senior administration ...
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Infinimmune, Merck enter into antibody discovery pact

By Kunal Das March 31 (Reuters) - Biotech firm Infinimmune said on Tuesday it has entered into a deal with drugmaker Merck that could be worth up to about $838 million in milestone payments, to discover and develop multiple antibodies for various undisclosed diseases. ...
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