Crystalys Therapeutics has dosed the first patients in a Phase II trial evaluating a treatment for difficult-to-treat gout. The trial will evaluate dotinurad, a next-generation, once daily, oral URAT1...
Four years and 219 lost companies later, biotech still has a cash problem
Rise and shine, everyone, another busy day is on the way. And it is getting off to a pleasant start here on the Pharmalot campus, where...
Merck, Gilead serve ‘sweet and sour’ spread after HIV win, cancer stumble
Last June, hundreds of staffers at the National Institutes of Health broke rank in an unprecedented move and published an open letter of dissent to agency...
AstraZeneca is pushing its small molecule GLP-1 drug to Phase 3 development for weight control, diabetes and other cardiometabolic conditions despite the asset failing to best...
Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning. After much deliberation, STAT has made...
Nuvalent Bio is GSK’s third big-ticket purchase this year, after the pharma dropped $2.2 billion in January for RAPT Therapeutics and $950 million in February for...
Newly approved weight loss pill Foundayo reduced blood sugar more than Novo Nordisk’s semaglutide and other comparators in multiple Phase 3 type 2 diabetes trials. Eli...
After the Associated Press Stylebook made the startling decision in April to shift from “health care” to “healthcare,” it set off a fierce debate not only...