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1. FTC accuses Martin Shkreli of violating lifetime pharma ban
2. Verdiva cans mid-stage obesity trial of GLP-1 pill, citing 'market evolution'
3. Novartis gives infectious disease docs a boost with antibiotic approval
4. Soufflé gets $135M for three RNA medicines
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We were deeply saddened to learn of the passing of STAT journalist Helen Branswell, who has been a force on the public health and infectious disease beat for many years. Thank you for your reporting and writing, and for making your readers smarter, Helen.

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Drew Armstrong
Executive Editor, Endpoints News
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The agency and sev­en states asked a New York fed­er­al court on Tues­day to hold Shkre­li in...

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by Kyle LaHucik, Elizabeth Cairns

Ver­di­va Bio, one of the best-fund­ed pri­vate biotechs seek­ing to get in­to the lu­cra­tive obe­si­ty drug mar­ket, has ter­mi­nat­edone of the Phase 2 tri­als...

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There is some good news in the world of an­tibi­otics.

No­var­tis qui­et­ly snagged sup­ple­men­tal FDA ap­proval for its drug Lam­prene over the sum­mer, tran­si­tion­ing a decades-old...

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by Ryan Cross

For decades, Rudolph Tanzi has dreamt of a “lit­tle white pill” to pre­vent Alzheimer’s dis­ease that would be so cheap and so safe, it could...

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An ex­per­i­men­tal mR­NA can­cer vac­cine from BioN­Tech failed to meet one of two pri­