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US-based Bristol Myers Squibb announced a $11.1 billion pact with Germany’s BioNTech SE for global co-development and co-commercialisation of an immunotherapy candidate to treat multiple tumour types.
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Bristol, BioNTech in $11.1b pact for immunotherapy candidate

HQ Team June 2, 2025: US-based Bristol Myers Squibb announced a $11.1 billion pact with Germany’s BioNTech SE for global co-development and co-commercialisation.

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The World Health Organization has called on governments to ban all flavours in tobacco and nicotine products, including cigarettes, pouches, hookahs and e-cigarettes, to protect youth from addiction and disease.
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WHO urges governments to ban all tobacco flavours, nicotine products

HQ Team June 2, 2025: The World Health Organization has called on governments to ban all flavours in tobacco and nicotine products, including.

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France’s Sanofi SA will acquire US-based Blueprint Medicines Corporation for $9.1 billion to gain access to an immunology medicine for a rare disease and expand the company’s portfolio.
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Sanofi to acquire Blueprint for $9.1b for immunology medicine

HQ Team June 2, 2025: France’s Sanofi SA will acquire US-based Blueprint Medicines Corporation for $9.1 billion to gain access to an immunology.

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An investigational therapy from Kite Pharma Inc., a Gilead Sciences company, has reduced tumours in 62% of the patients with a fatal form of brain cancer.
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Gilead unit’s experimental therapy shrink brain tumours by 62%

HQ Team June 2, 2025: An investigational therapy from Kite Pharma Inc., a Gilead Sciences company, has reduced tumours in 62% of the.

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Merck & Co., Inc.’s drug Keytruda, along with Gilead Sciences Inc.'s antibody-drug conjugate, cut the risk of an aggressive breast cancer advancement and death by 35% during an end-stage trial.
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Merck, Gilead’s drug for breast cancer cuts progression risk by 35 per cent

HQ Team June 1, 2025: Merck & Co., Inc.’s drug Keytruda, along with Gilead Sciences Inc.’s antibody-drug conjugate, cut the risk of an.

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An investigational oral breast cancer drug being developed by Pfizer and Arvinas Inc. has been shown to delay progression of the disease by three months compared to AstraZeneca’s Faslodex or fulvestrant.
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Pfizer, Arvinas’ breast cancer test drug scores on disease advance

HQ Team June 1, 2025: An investigational oral breast cancer drug being developed by Pfizer and Arvinas Inc. has been shown to delay.

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Stanford University, along with other researchers, has developed a set of gene delivery systems that can reach different neural cell types in the human brain and spinal cord with exceptional accuracy — a tool which may lead to new gene therapies to treat Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and neurogenerative diseases.
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Scientists make gene ‘truck’ to unload genetic package in brain, spine

HQ Team May 30, 2025: Stanford University, along with other researchers, has developed a set of gene delivery systems that can reach different.

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Swiss-American Alcon Inc.’s acoltremon ophthalmic solution, Tryptyr, has received a green signal from the US Food and Drug Administration to treat dry eye disease.
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Alcon’s medicine for dry eye disease gets approval from US regulator

HQ Team May 29, 2025: Swiss-American Alcon Inc.’s acoltremon ophthalmic solution, Tryptyr, has received a green signal from the US Food and Drug.

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The US Department of Health and Human Services has terminated a contract awarded to Moderna Inc. for the late-stage development of a bird flu vaccine for humans.
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US terminates Moderna contract for investigational bird flu vaccine

HQ Team May 29, 2025: The US Department of Health and Human Services has terminated a contract awarded to Moderna Inc. for the.

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More than one million children are at risk of contracting cholera in war-torn Sudan, where 185 deaths have occurred due to the disease since January.
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A million children at risk of cholera in conflict-hit Sudan: UNICEF says

HQ Team May 29, 2025: More than one million children are at risk of contracting cholera in war-torn Sudan, where 185 deaths have.

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