There is still no effective vaccine or cure for HIV. Scientists are considering options ranging from longer-term antiretroviral therapy (ART) that space out injections by several years to long-lasting ...

The U.S. FDA’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee took up the matter of GSK plc’s relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma drug, Blenrep (belantamab mafodotin). A B-cell maturation antigen-directed ...

The rough ride presaged by briefing documents came to pass for GSK plc with the drug first approved by the U.S. FDA as Blenrep (belantamab mafodotin, bel-maf), as the agency’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory ...

Abbott Laboratories’ second quarter results echoed Johnson & Johnson’s, with med tech performing the hero’s work with strong growth. Overall, Abbott slightly beat expectations with sales up 6.9% ...

The Australian government has awarded nearly AU$100 million (US$64.65 million) in grant funding to three biopharma/med-tech ...

The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation has agreed to provide Prime Medicine Inc. an additional investment of up to $24 million to ...

Voyager Therapeutics Inc. has expanded its Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pipeline with the addition of a wholly owned program that ...

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a draft coverage memo for cardiac contractility modulation ...

After a 10-year project and a £60 million (US$80 million) investment, the UK Biobank has completed the whole body scans of ...

The U.K. government has committed to reduce the cost of drug and device approvals by 25% as part of a long-awaited life sciences strategy which sets out a 10-year plan for the sector.

Myocardial hypertrophy is a condition characterized by thickening of the ventricular wall and commonly associated with progression to heart failure. It develops when the heart is subjected to ...

Johnson & Johnson beat analysts’ expectations for its second quarter results, led by medical device sales of $8.54 billion. All med-tech segments performed better than anticipated, with cardiology ...