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FDA Approves Regeneron Sanofi Treatment For Rare Autoimmune Skin Disorder
Friday, June 20, 2025 - 10:47am | 491The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday approved Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:REGN) and Sanofi SA’s (NASDAQ:SNY) Dupixent (dupilumab) for adult patients with bullous pemphigoid (BP), a rare, chronic autoimmune skin disorder. BP primarily affects elderly...
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FDA Approves Amgen Treatment For Pretreated Colorectal Cancer With Certain Mutation
Friday, January 17, 2025 - 1:11pm | 332The Food and Drug Administration approved Amgen Inc‘s (NASDAQ:AMGN) Lumakras (sotorasib) in combination with Vectibix (panitumumab) for KRAS G12C-mutated metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC), who have received prior fluoropyrimidine-, oxaliplatin- and irinotecan-based chemotherapy. Approval...
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Outdoing Cancer Requires Pharma To Go Beyond Merely Revolutionizing Existing Treatment
Thursday, February 22, 2024 - 1:21pm | 845Pfizer Inc (NYSE: PFE) is among the many pharmaceutical companies that turned to oncology in response to sinking demand for its COVID-19 products and near patent expiration dates for its several top-sellers. At the end of 2023, Pfizer completed its acquisition of Seagen Inc. (NASDAQ: SGEN),...
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Troubled Biotech Company's Investigational Cancer Drug Gets Greenlighted By FDA
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - 9:38am | 539In a recent announcement, 23andMe Holding Co. (NASDAQ:ME) has disclosed that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given the green light to its investigational new drug application for 23ME-01473 (‘1473), a natural killer (NK) cell activator designed to combat cancer. What Happened...
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GenScript Losses Widen, But Investors Focus on Newly Approved Cancer Treatment
Tuesday, March 1, 2022 - 1:29pm | 1165Key takeaways: GenScript Biotech said it lost up to $519 million last year, with its Legend Biotech unit accounting for nearly 70% of that Legend Biotech’s Cilta-cel CAR-T cell therapy product was approved by the FDA on Monday, and could become a major cash cow for GenScript Biotech By...
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Enveric Biosciences' CBD-Based Product Reduces Dermatitis Severity In Animal Study
Thursday, November 18, 2021 - 11:54am | 262Enveric Biosciences (NASDAQ: ENVB) announced data from a preclinical rodent model evaluating EV102, the company's cannabidiol (CBD) based product in development for the topical treatment of radiodermatitis. Radiodermatitis, the most common side effect of radiation therapy, is a...
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Checkpoint Therapeutics CEO On Tapping Into A $25 Billion Cancer Treatment Market
Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - 8:33am | 1382The following post was written and/or published as a collaboration between Benzinga’s in-house sponsored content team and a financial partner of Benzinga. Since its establishment in 2014 by founding company Fortress Biotech, Inc. (NASDAQ: FBIO), biopharmaceutical company Checkpoint...
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Valeant Stock Moves Higher After FDA Approves Bowel Cleanser
Monday, May 7, 2018 - 10:53am | 334Valeant Pharmaceuticals Intl Inc (NYSE: VRX) shares gained 2 percent Monday morning after the company confirmed the Food and Drug Administration approved its bowel-cleansing preparation product. What Happened Valeant said the FDA granted approval for PLENVU, the company's polyethylene...
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Endocyte Shares Up More Than 100% In 2 Days, But Analyst Sees Even More Upside Possible
Tuesday, October 3, 2017 - 1:38pm | 338Shares of Endocyte, Inc. (NASDAQ: ECYT) were trading higher by more than 60 percent Tuesday afternoon at $5.82 on top of Monday's monster triple-digit-percentage return gain, but some analysts see even more upside. Wedbush's David Nierengarten upgraded Endocyte's stock rating Neutral to Outperform...
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Everything We Know About Merck's Keytruda
Wednesday, March 8, 2017 - 3:22pm | 542Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MRK)'s KEYTRUDA is a therapy used to combat a form of skin cancer called melanoma. It can also be used to treat a kind of lung cancer called non-small cell lung cancer. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced on Nov. 28, 2016, it has granted a Priority Review...
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These Biotechs Are Getting Crushed Following Juno's Cancer Drug Hold
Friday, July 8, 2016 - 11:17am | 347Juno Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: JUNO) announced late Thursday it has received notice from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that it has placed a clinical hold on its Phase II clinical trial of JCAR015 in patients with relapsed or refractory B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. The trial,...
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Here's Why OXiGENE Surged 65% Early Tuesday Morning
Tuesday, May 24, 2016 - 9:10am | 307Shares of OXiGENE Inc (NASDAQ: OXGN), a nano-cap biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the development of vascular disrupting agents for the treatment of cancer, surged higher by more than 65 percent early Tuesday morning. Investors and traders reacted to OXiGENE's announcement that the "...
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Trovagene Gains 3% On Favorable Mention In Medical Journal
Friday, April 15, 2016 - 2:02pm | 300Shares of TrovaGene Inc (NASDAQ: TROV), a molecular diagnostic company, gained more than 2 percent on Friday after the company announced that it was favorably mentioned in a medical journal. TrovaGene said a patient case report feature use of its Precision Cancer Monitoring technology was...
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Cellular Biomedicine's Stock Surges After Company Receives Strategic Investment
Thursday, February 4, 2016 - 4:34pm | 191Shares of Cellular Biomedicine Group Inc (NASDAQ: CBMG), a biomedical company that is engaged in the development of new treatments for cancerous and degenerative diseases, surged by more than 6 percent on Thursday. Cellular Biomedicine announced it has received a $43.13 million investment from...
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Merck CEO: Using Keytruda Could Extend Patient's Life By 13 Months On Average
Monday, December 21, 2015 - 2:43pm | 166Speaking to Fox Business Network, Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MRK)'s CEO Kenneth Frazier discussed the company's Keytruda drug that is used to treat patients suffering from lung cancer. Frazier, citing recent data from studies, said that using Keytruda could extend the life of a...