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1. Who’s Heidi? Trump's new FDA pick has been critical of vaccine requirements, abortion pills
2. For Moderna, cancer vaccine results ease investor skepticism on its future as stock soars
3. FDA approves Regeneron’s drug for ultra-rare disease that turns tissue to bone
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5. Federal appeals court revives part of Teva's IRA case as Austedo price cuts loom
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There's officially a new nomination for FDA commissioner: Heidi Overton. Max Bayer has the story on what you need to know about Overton's background and what it signals for her potential tenure at the agency.

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Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer
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FDA commissioner nominee Heidi Overton (Jacquelyn Martin/AP Images, File)
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by Max Bayer

The FDA's next chap­ter is of­fi­cial­ly un­der­way.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump an­nounced Hei­di Over­ton as his pick for FDA com­mis­sion­er in a so­cial me­dia post Wednes­day...

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by Nicole DeFeudis

Mod­er­na has been say­ing for years that it would di­ver­si­fy its port­fo­lio be­yond in­fec­tious dis­eases. In­vestors were wait­ing for late-stage proof.

On Wednes­day, they got...

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by Ayisha Sharma

Re­gen­eron has se­cured ap­proval for its treat­ment for a de­bil­i­tat­ing dis­ease that re­places mus­cle and con­nec­tive tis­sue with bone.

The FDA on Wednes­day cleared the...

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by Max Gelman

The next gen­er­a­tion of im­munother­a­py ap­pears to have ar­rived.

Mer­ck and Mod­er­na on Wednes­day said their per­son­al­ized can­cer vac­cine, known as in­tismer­an au­to­gene, suc­ceed­ed in...

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by Nicole DeFeudis

Af­ter a low­er court re­ject­ed Teva's case last fall, a fed­er­al ap­peals court has re­vived part of the drug­mak­er’s law­suit against Medicare ne­go­ti­a­tions.

The DC...

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