by Jessica Casebolt | May 16, 2023 | Life Sciences, Tea Leaves
CVS Health is closing down its clinical trials arm just two years after its launch. The company began its collaboration with pharmaceutical companies in 2021 and will shut it down at the end of 2024. To date,CVS Health has worked with more than 30 drugmakers on 50...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 12, 2023 | Life Sciences, Tea Leaves
The Food and Drug Administration finalized new guidance on Thursday that will allow more gay and bisexual men to donate blo The change formally ends the FDA’s blood donor restrictionsfor men who have sex with men that originated during the HIV/AIDS crisis in the...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 11, 2023 | Life Sciences, Tea Leaves
A panel of outside advisers to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) unanimously voted Wednesday that the benefits of making a birth control pill available over the counter outweigh the potential risks.The 17-0 vote represents a major step forward in the decades-long...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 10, 2023 | Life Sciences, Tea Leaves
Some of the world’s biggest drugmakers are laying legal groundwork to fight the U.S. plan to negotiate drug prices for its Medicare health coverage, including the argument that a ban against speaking about these talks violates constitutional rights, according to six...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 8, 2023 | Life Sciences, Tea Leaves
As U.S. health regulators are weighing thefirst-ever request to make a birth control pill available without a prescription, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) scientists on Friday expressed skepticism about whether the birth control pill can be switched from...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 4, 2023 | Life Sciences, Tea Leaves
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday approved the first vaccine to prevent infections caused by respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, a widespread pathogen that can be deadly in young children and older adults. Approval of the vaccine, which was...
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