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On 26 June 2023, the rush to develop obesity therapies appeared to have raised the bar, as an experimental weight-loss drug from US pharma company Eli Lilly yielded the greatest effects of any treatment observed thus far. The American Diabetes Association’s annual meeting has brought the competitive dynamics of ...

FDA Approves Jardiance for the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes in Children 10 Years and Older Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly and Company announced that the FDA has approved Jardiance® (empagliflozin) 10 mg and 25 mg tablets to decrease blood sugar together with diet and exercise in children 10 years and older w...

FDA Approves ABRYSVO™, Pfizer’s Vaccine for the Prevention of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) in Older Adults Pfizer Inc. announced that the FDA has authorized ABRYSVO (Respiratory Syncytial Virus Vaccine), the company's bivalent RSV prefusion F (RSVpreF) vaccine, for the prevention of lower respiratory...

Infections due to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) have seriously troubled drug makers for decades and the need for a vaccine was on since the 1960s. According to the assessment done by DelveInsight on the latest published “Respiratory Syncytial Virus Epidemiology Report,” it is estimated to affect approximately 5...

Respiratory syncytial virus is estimated to affect approximately 5 million cases this year in the United States and 2.5 million RSV cases in the EU4 countries and the United Kingdom. As per Delveinsight analysis on the latest published “Respiratory Syncytial Virus Epidemiology Report,” the US comprised ~70%, ~27%, ...

FDA Approves Eli Lilly’s Jaypirca for Relapsed Mantle Cell Lymphoma Eli Lilly has received FDA approval for Jaypirca, a non-covalent BTK inhibitor, in relapsed mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) patients who have relapsed after treatment with other drugs in the class. Adult MCL patients who have previously received at l...

Gilead Buys Out Rights to Cancer Therapy from Jounce for USD 67 Million Gilead Sciences must have liked what it saw in a two-year-old collaboration with Jounce Therapeutics for CCR8-targeting cancer immunotherapy because the company has just agreed to own the program fully. The drug in question, GS-1811 (formerl...

FDA Approves Gilead Sciences’ Sunlenca Sunlenca, a Gilead Sciences therapy for people with multidrug-resistant (MDR) HIV infection that only needs to be taken twice a year, has received FDA approval for the second time of asking. Sunlenca, which is based on the HIV capsid inhibitor lenacapavir, is intended to be...

Pfizer’s RSV Vaccine enters in the late-stage of clinical trials  As the battle to get an effective Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) vaccine on the market heats up, Pfizer is launching a critical late-stage study of its experimental vaccine against a severe version of a cold virus that may cause pneumonia ...

Pharmaceutical companies play a vital part in our lives and in helping us to live healthier lives. The pharmaceutical industry finds, develops, manufactures, and promotes medicines or pharmaceutical drugs for usage as medications that are administered (or self-administered) to patients in order to cure, vaccinate, ...