Andrew Joseph covers health, medicine, and the biopharma industry in Europe. You can reach Andrew on Signal at drewqjoseph.45. Merck said Friday it would buy Cidara Therapeutics, the maker of an experimental flu therapy, in a $9.2 billion deal, as the pharma giants widens its pipeline to counter the impending revenue hit as its mega-blockbuster…
WASHINGTON — Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said he does not want to take vaccines away from Americans. But at a closed-door meeting of Food and Drug Administration vaccine scientists in September, a top official suggested doing just that. Scientists listened as Tracy Beth Høeg, a lieutenant to FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, laid…
In 2023, Johnson & Johnson announced it had stopped research and development on therapeutics for many infectious diseases, including hepatitis and tuberculosis. Less visibly, AbbVie shuttered last year its pro bono technical R&D support on infectious diseases such as malaria and Chagas’ disease. These are not isolated cases. An increasing number of large pharmaceutical companies…
WASHINGTON — Peter Marks, the former top vaccine regulator at the Food and Drug Administration, has joined Eli Lilly to oversee molecule discovery and infectious diseases — a move likely to rile up critics of the revolving door between FDA and industry. Marks confirmed his new role at Lilly Research Laboratories to STAT. His first day was…
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WASHINGTON — President Trump on Monday suggested an overhaul to how children get vaccinated after claiming, without evidence, that many vaccines are unsafe as currently given. The president said he has talked with health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about his proposed changes. While Trump has occasionally expressed skepticism of some vaccines, the president’s comments…
ATLANTA — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said he wants his handpicked panel of vaccine advisers to restore declining public trust in vaccines. What that looked like was on full display on Thursday and Friday: The 12-person committee, which includes several scientists and researchers who’ve questioned or spread misinformation about…
WASHINGTON — A government advisory committee voted unanimously Friday to recommend that individuals 6 months and older should discuss the risks and benefits of Covid-19 vaccines with their health care providers before deciding whether to get vaccinated. The decision, if signed off on by federal health leaders, would preserve insurance coverage for the shots, and…
A key government advisory committee will vote Wednesday on whether to recommend delaying the first hepatitis B vaccine shot, currently given to babies at birth, by at least one month. Experts fear delaying the shot would lead to more children developing chronic liver infections and complications, setting back decades of public health work that has…
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