Reuters via handout GlaxoSmithKline just agreed to acquire the cancer drugmaker Tesaro for $ 5.1 billion in a bid to bulk up its cancer pipeline. Tesaro makes a drug called Zejula, which is used to treat ovarian cancer. GSK has been working to refresh its research-and-development strategy — in July it made a $ 300 […]
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Pharma giant GSK just made a $5.1 billion bet on a cancer drugmaker (GSK, TSRO)
Reuters via handout GlaxoSmithKline just agreed to acquire the cancer drugmaker Tesaro for $ 5.1 billion in a bid to bulk up its cancer pipeline. Tesaro makes a drug called Zejula, which is used to treat ovarian cancer. GSK has been working to refresh its research-and-development strategy — in July it made a $ 300 […]
Trump Forces Big Pharma to Swallow a Bitter Pill
When Nashville native Robyn Erickson came to the defense of Donald Trump during a mid-October town hall in Tennessee organized by OZY, she didn’t give the typical litany of responses — the economy or conservative judges or even immigration. Challenging suggestions that the president has not achieved meaningful successes in office, Erickson, a conservative, said, […]
23andMe’s Pharma Deals Have Been the Plan All Along
A new partnership with GlaxoSmithKline drew intense scrutiny from customers, reflecting eroding public trust in companies’ ability to protect private information. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b622393fb5fd052de317329/master/pass/23andMe%20and%20its%20pharma%20connections.jpg
How Pharma Hides Data About Farm Antibiotic Use
Other nations report and track exactly how and where antibiotics are given to livestock, but in the US, that data is tied up in political football. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b1ac93311196626aaeb15e7/master/pass/ideas_mckenna_livestock_data1-FINAL.jpg
‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli gets 7 years in securities fraud case
“Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison for defrauding investors in two failed hedge funds.
Judge orders ‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli to give up $7.36M US
A U.S. federal judge on Monday ordered Martin Shkreli, the former drug company executive convicted of defrauding investors, to forfeit $ 7.36 million US in assets, which could include a Picasso painting and a one-of-a-kind album by the Wu-Tang Clan.
Following the money between patient groups and Big Pharma
More than two dozen patient groups want to stop Health Canada from trying to cut prescription drug prices in Canada, arguing that lower prices could be bad for patients. Their message echoes the one from the pharmaceutical industry lobby group Innovative Medicines Canada.
Circle Pharma Announces Publication in Journal of Medicinal Chemistry of Results from Collaboration with Pfizer Inc.
PRESS RELEASE: SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–January 17, 2018– Circle Pharma, Inc. today announced that results from its collaborative work with Pfizer Inc. to develop a potent and orally bioavailable macrocycle modulator of the chemokine receptor, CXCR7, have been published in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. The goal of the collaboration was to deploy Circle’s […]
Big Ag + Big Pharma = Big Problems
Enlarge If you enjoy a good roasted chicken and would like to continue to do so, you might want to stop reading now. Because chicken as we know it—breasts cut up on onto a Caesar salad, nuggets fried in pieces in a bucket, drumsticks wrapped in plastic in the supermarket—is hardly the Little Red Hen […]
