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1. FDA approvals outrun staff cuts: 23 novel drugs mark the best first half in three years
2. CMS proposes 340B cuts
3. New acting deputy CDER promotion elevates longtime GLP-1 reviewer
4. Bristol Myers details Krazati confirmatory study failure in colorectal cancer
5. Salk Institute’s president on NIH cuts, being ‘all in’ on AI, and the Year of the Brain
6. Roche's $25M Astex deal is small money upfront, but a big signal for breast cancer goals
7. Updated: Novartis commits $1.1B upfront to take Myricx Bio and its next-gen ADC platform
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Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer
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There have been 23 new drugs approved through the first six months of 2026, Zachary Brennan reports. That's kept pace with the rate of new approvals in the past few years, despite heavy FDA staff cuts.

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Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer
Deputy Editor, Endpoints News
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by Zachary Brennan

There's an an­swer emerg­ing on the multi­bil­lion-dol­lar ques­tion of whether the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion's gut­ting of FDA staff in April 2025 would slow down drug ap­provals...

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by Nicole DeFeudis

A pro­posed rule would cut the rates by which Medicare pays hos­pi­tals for 340B drugs by more than a third, re­viv­ing a sim­i­lar pol­i­cy in­tro­duced...

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Manufacturing Day 2026
A year into the tariff era, the biopharma industry has stopped bracing for impact — however manufacturing and supply chain leaders are still rewriting their plans on the fly. We’re bringing together the experts tracking what R&D logistics looks like today. Join us — find out what’s next.
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by Max Bayer

Act­ing FDA CDER di­rec­tor Michael Davis has pro­mot­ed a long­time FDA staffer as an act­ing deputy di­rec­tor at the drug cen­ter.

Lisa Yanoff, an agency...

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by Max Gelman

While Amer­i­cans geared up for the Ju­ly 4 hol­i­day, Bris­tol My­ers Squibb laid out how a con­fir­ma­to­ry tri­al for its drug Kraza­ti failed in col­orec­tal...

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Gerald Joyce, Salk Institute president (Credit: Salk Institute)
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by Andrew Dunn

SAN DIEGO — From the pres­i­dent’s of­fice at the Salk In­sti­tute, Ger­ald Joyce has a quin­tes­sen­tial Cal­i­for­nia view of hang glid­ers soar­ing over the Pa­cif­ic Ocean...

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by Elizabeth Cairns

Mon­day’s deal be­tween Ot­su­ka’s sub­sidiary As­tex and Roche’s sub­sidiary Genen­tech is of in­ter­est not be­cause it is big