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1. Novo sues Lilly over 'deceptive' ads comparing GLP-1 drug doses
2. FDA plans to name permanent CBER, CDER heads with new commissioner nomination
3. Indian generic drugmaker gets FDA warning over clinical study consent
4. For Novartis' CEO, China deals aren't a strategy shift — just where the science is
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Gilead and Merck provide HIV data; Dimension Capital announces $800M fund
6. Agios’ second shot at sickle cell disease falls short
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Nicole DeFeudis
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Pharma companies suffered another loss on Tuesday in their fight to launch 340B rebate models. A federal appeals court sided with HHS in cases brought by Novartis, Bristol Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly and Johnson & Johnson, ruling that the companies must win agency approval before launching their new reimbursement models. But that doesn’t mean the pharma companies won’t ultimately get their way. We’ll be watching to see what happens next.

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Nicole DeFeudis
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by Nicole DeFeudis

The two biggest play­ers in the obe­si­ty mar­ket are head­ed to court.

No­vo Nordisk sued Eli Lil­ly on Tues­day over what it claims are “ma­li­cious­ly...

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by Max Bayer, Zachary Brennan

The FDA is plan­ning to an­nounce a slate of se­nior per­son­nel an­nounce­ments when a new com­mis­sion­er is named, in­clud­ing per­ma­nent heads of CBER and CDER...

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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 Anna Brown

In­di­an gener­ic drug­mak­er Alem­bic Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals has been hit with an FDA warn­ing let­ter af­ter fail­ing to get in­formed con­sent from pa­tients for a clin­i­cal study...

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Vas Narasimhan, Novartis CEO (Chris J. Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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by Ayisha Sharma

No­var­tis is­n't mak­ing deals in Chi­na just for the sake of buy­ing there.

That's the word from CEO Vas Narasimhan, who told re­porters on a...

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News Briefing: Quick hits from the biopharma web
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by ENDPOINTS

Gilead and Mer­ck’s HIV da­ta: The duo will presentmore de­tailed re­sults of the Phase 3 tri­als of their once-week­ly oral HIV treat­ment reg­i­men at...

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by Lei Lei Wu

Agios said it is drop­ping a next-gen­er­a­tion sick­le cell dis­ease drug af­ter lack­lus­ter re­sults from a mid-stage tri­al.

The drug, known as tebapi­vat, rep­re­sent­ed Agios’ sec­ond...

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