Patient Centered Care

J&J’s Global Initiatives Improve Disease Detection, Broaden Access

by Samantha McGrail

Johnson & Johnson recently announced a series of initiatives in high tuberculosis (TB) burden countries to empower a generation of youth to end TB and increase disease detection.   The...

Vivalink’s Biometrics Data Platform Monitors Oncology Patients

by Samantha McGrail

Digital healthcare solutions company, Vivalink, will provide its Biometric Data Platform to help detect neutropenic fever events in oncology patients.   Vivalink is at the forefront of...

Moderna Will Expand mRNA Vaccine Pipeline Through 2 New Programs

by Samantha McGrail

Moderna will expand its mRNA vaccine pipeline through two new development programs, including a combination respiratory vaccine candidate and a program against four endemic human coronaviruses...

Thermo Fisher to Invest $97M to Expand Drug Development Efforts

by Samantha McGrail

Thermo Fisher Scientific will invest $97 million to expand its clinical research operations in Virginia to support the increasing demand for drug development.   Over the next three years,...

AstraZeneca Launches R&D Challenge to Advance Drug Discovery

by Samantha McGrail

AstraZeneca recently launched a global research and development Postdoctoral Challenge to help advance drug discovery for some of the world’s most complex diseases.  The challenge invites...

Moderna Doses First Patient in HIV mRNA Vaccine Clinical Trial

by Samantha McGrail

Moderna recently dosed the first participant in an HIV trimer mRNA vaccine (mRNA-1574) clinical trial.   The open-label Phase 1 trial will evaluate the safety and immunogenicity of...

Civica to Manufacture Lower-Priced Insulin for Diabetes Patients

by Samantha McGrail

Civica recently announced plans to manufacture and distribute insulin to diabetes patients at significantly lower prices than insulins currently on the market.  Civica, CivicaScript, and the...

Novo Nordisk Expands Collaboration in Oral Drug Delivery Tech

by Samantha McGrail

Novo Nordisk recently expanded its research collaboration in oral drug delivery technologies with the Massachusetts Institutes of Technology (MIT) and Brigham and Women’s Hospital...

Moderna Launches Public Health Strategy to Advance mRNA Vaccines

by Samantha McGrail

Moderna recently announced its global public health strategy through four initiatives to advance mRNA vaccines for infectious diseases. In the first strategy, Moderna will expand its global public...

AMA Supports Biden’s Medicare Proposal, Prescription Drug Policies

by Samantha McGrail

The American Medical Association (AMA) recently strongly supported the Biden Administration's proposal for Medicare Advantage (MA) and prescription drug benefit policies in an official letter. In...

FDA Accepts Application for Pfizer’s Biosimilar to Humira

by Samantha McGrail

FDA recently accepted for review the Prior Approval Supplement (PAS) to the Biologics License Application (BLA) for Pfizer’s interchangeable biosimilar to Humira, Abrilada. Abrilada is a...

Nearly Half of All Medicare Drug Prices Increased From 2019-2020

by Samantha McGrail

Half of all Medicare Part D covered drugs and nearly half of all Medicare Part B covered drugs (48%) had price increases greater than inflation between July 2019 and July 2020, according to...

Moderna, Thermo Fisher to Boost mRNA Vaccine Manufacturing

by Samantha McGrail

Moderna and Thermo Fisher Scientific recently announced a 15-year collaboration agreement for dedicated large-scale manufacturing of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine and other mRNA vaccines in the...

Moderna Expands mRNA Vaccine Pipeline for HSV, VZV, Cancer

by Samantha McGrail

Moderna recently expanded its mRNA pipeline with three new development programs, including an HSV mRNA vaccine, a varicella-zoster virus (VZV) vaccine, and a checkpoint cancer vaccine. First, Moderna...

GSK Introduces Standalone Consumer Healthcare Company, Haleon

by Samantha McGrail

GSK recently announced that the consumer healthcare company from its proposed transaction with Pfizer will be named Haleon. Haleon will be a new world leader in consumer healthcare, offering to bring...

Gilead’s HIV-1 Drug Achieves High Rates of Virologic Suppression

by Samantha McGrail

Gilead recently announced one-year results from an ongoing Phase 2/3 CAPELLA trial evaluating its HIV-1 capsid inhibitor, lenacapavir, in individuals with multi-drug resistant HIV. The trial...

Moderna, ROVI Expand Collaboration to Boost mRNA Vaccines

by Samantha McGrail

Moderna and ROVI recently entered into a long-term collaboration to increase capacities for the compounding, aseptic filling, inspection, and manufacturing of mRNA vaccines and medicines over the next...

Merck’s Keytruda, Chemotherapy Helps High-Risk Breast Cancer

by Samantha McGrail

Merck recently announced that Keytruda, combined with chemotherapy and followed by Keytruda as monotherapy, prolonged event-free survival compared to chemotherapy followed by placebo in patients with...

FDA Grants Emergency Authorization For Eli Lilly’s COVID-19 Antibody

by Samantha McGrail

FDA recently issued emergency use authorization for Eli Lilly and Company’s monoclonal antibody, bebtelovimab, which retains activity against the omicron variant. The agency authorized the...

Bristol Myers Grants $7.9M to Improve Access to Care Across US

by Samantha McGrail

Bristol Myers Squibb recently granted $7.965 million to 24 US non-profit organizations to improve access to care for medically underserved patients across oncology, cardiology, immunology, and...