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NOVEMBER 14, 2024

A key regulatory committee sided against the drug this summer. But an appeal from Eisai appears to have worked, teeing Leqembi up for authorization in a major market.

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MAY 6, 2024

With many chemotherapy and ADHD drugs stuck in stubbornly short supply, several agencies are looking for new solutions.

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DECEMBER 19, 2024

THURSDAY, Dec. 19, 2024 -- The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a civil complaint against CVS Pharmacy Inc., accusing the nations largest pharmacy chain of unlawfully filling prescriptions for highly addictive opioids and violating f.

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

JULY 10, 2023

Three reports from Iceland spurred the EMA to evaluate whether certain Novo Nordisk drugs, including Ozempic, might cause thoughts of self harm.

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

The EMA's safety committee has more questions for makers of the in-demand therapies as it reviews whether the drugs are linked to the risk of suicidal thoughts.

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Drugs.com

MARCH 6, 2025

THURSDAY, March 6, 2025 -- Florida’s insurance regulator is demanding detailed prescription data on millions of patients, raising alarms over patient privacy. In January, the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation asked pharmacy benefit.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Galactic winds enable the exchange of matter between galaxies and their surroundings. In this way, they limit the growth of galaxies, that is, their star formation rate.

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

JULY 26, 2024

Eisai plans to appeal the EMA’s negative recommendation, hoping to break into a market analysts expect could eventually bring billions of dollars in sales for the Alzheimer’s drug.

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Covalent Modifiers

MARCH 1, 2024

We deciphered a compensatory biochemical feedback cycle where FA-dependent SAM deficiency led to an increase in MAT1A expression through genetic and epigenetic mechanisms regulated by FA-dependent transcription factors and DNA promoter hypomethylation, respectively.

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

JANUARY 8, 2025

The regulator is requiring labeling that warns of Guillan-Barré syndrome, although it said data don’t prove a causal link and affirmed the shots’ benefit outweighs their risks.

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Drugs.com

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

FRIDAY, Sept. 1, 2023 -- Nursing homes will soon have to meet federal minimum staffing requirements, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Friday. Establishing minimum staffing standards for nursing homes will improve.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

MAY 10, 2024

Researchers describe the risks of deception by AI systems and call for governments to develop strong regulations to address this issue as soon as possible. Many artificial intelligence (AI) systems have already learned how to deceive humans, even systems that have been trained to be helpful and honest.

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

MARCH 28, 2025

Key regulators are not recommending Lilly’s Kisunla be cleared for the European market. The company says it plans to appeal the verdict, a strategy successfully employed by Eisai.

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APRIL 12, 2024

The decision clears a concern hanging over GLP-1 medicines like Ozempic since reports of suicidal ideation and self-harm among people taking the drugs surfaced in July.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 24, 2023

A team of chemists have developed a novel concept in which a mixture of molecules that behave like mirror images is converted to a single form. To this end, they use light as external energy source. The conversion is relevant e.g. for the preparation of drugs.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

APRIL 19, 2024

Two decades of continual observations provide a greater understanding of the Earth's climate regulating system. Analysis of mooring observations and hydrographic data suggest the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation deep water limb in the North Atlantic has weakened.

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Covalent Modifiers

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

DOI Ansgar Oberheide, Maxime van den Oetelaar, Jakob Scheele, Jan Borggrfe, Semmy Engelen, Michael Sattler, Christian Ottmann, Peter Cossar and Luc Brunsveld RSC Med Chem 2025 [link] Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are key regulators of various cellular processes.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 9, 2024

Catastrophic volcanic eruptions that warmed the planet millions of years ago shed new light on how plants evolve and regulate climate. Researchers reveal the long-term effects of disturbed natural ecosystems on climate in geological history and its implications for today.

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AUGUST 20, 2024

The research could reshape scientists' understanding of gene regulation and how genetic variations may influence gene expression in development or disease. A newly discovered code within DNA -- coined 'spatial grammar' -- holds a key to understanding how gene activity is encoded in the human genome.

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AUGUST 29, 2024

A new study sheds light on the vital role that the mixing of Atlantic and Arctic waters plays in sustaining the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), which is crucial for regulating Earth's climate.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Human breast milk regulates a baby's mix of microbes, or microbiome, during the infant's first year of life. This in turn lowers the child's risk of developing asthma, a new study shows.

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JUNE 4, 2024

Giant viruses found on the Greenland ice sheet probably regulate the growth of snow algae on the ice by infecting them. Knowing how to control these viruses could help us reduce the rate of ice-melt.

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AUGUST 12, 2024

New findings document fewer ship tracks, reduced cloud cover, and boosted warming after ship emissions regulations took effect in 2020.

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JULY 17, 2024

While effective in regulating weight and stabilizing diabetes, these diets are not without risks. High-protein diets, known as 'Paleolithic diets', are popular. Using mouse models, scientists have studied their impact. Excess protein greatly increases ammonium production, overwhelming the liver.

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MAY 15, 2024

The ability to regulate body temperature, a trait all mammals and birds have today, may have evolved among some dinosaurs early in the Jurassic period about 180 million years ago.

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

DECEMBER 15, 2023

While a positive recommendation for the gene editing treatment Casgevy was expected, a clearance for Biogen’s Skyclaris, acquired through a recent acquisition, was no sure bet.

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The companies now plan on starting this year another large study of their drug, dapirolizumab pegol, in the hopes that they can confirm its safety and effectiveness to drug regulators.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The Circumpolar Current works as a regulator of the planet's climate. Its origins were thought to have caused the formation of the permanent ice in Antarctica about 34 million years ago.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

APRIL 24, 2024

A research team has discovered that cancer, one of the leading causes of death worldwide, can be caused entirely by epigenetic changes, in other words, changes that contribute to how gene expression is regulated, and partly explain why, despite an identical genome, an individual develops very different cells (neurons, skin cells, etc.).

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

JUNE 9, 2023

The regulator will issue separate verdicts on the pioneering treatment’s use in sickle cell disease and beta thalassemia, with the first expected late this year.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JANUARY 14, 2025

Geospatial scientists and senior legal and regulatory analyst quantified exactly how much energy could be generated from floating solar panel projects installed on federally owned or regulated reservoirs.

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JULY 5, 2023

The vaccine has a chance to become Moderna’s second approved product and could help offset declining sales for its COVID-19 shot.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JULY 2, 2024

3'UTRs (untranslated regions) are segments of RNA involved in gene regulation. The new study focuses on critical snippets of RNA in the tiny, transparent roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans (C. The study provides a detailed map of the 3'UTR regions of RNA in C.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JULY 2, 2024

The findings reveal that production of the blood sugar-regulating hormone is much more dynamic and individualized than previously thought, while showing for the first time a subset of the population who are hyper-responsive to fatty foods.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JULY 27, 2023

A gene encoding a protein linked to tau production -- tripartite motif protein 11 (TRIM11) -- was found to suppress deterioration in small animal models of neurodegenerative diseases similar to Alzheimer's disease (AD), while improving cognitive and motor abilities, according to new research.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

A new cell type provides a missing piece of the neural network regulating appetite.

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AUGUST 19, 2024

These stem cells are regulated by evolutionary highly conserved genes. Using molecular genetic methods, developmental biologists have now identified possible candidates for multipotent stem cells in the sea anemone for the first time.

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