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Judge rules CVS, Walgreens, and Walmart owe $650M in opioids suit

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CLEVELAND — A federal judge in Cleveland awarded $650 million in damages Wednesday to two Ohio counties that won a landmark lawsuit against national pharmacy chains CVS, Walgreens and Walmart, claiming the way they distributed opioids to customers caused severe harm to communities and created a public nuisance. Read the rest…

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‘Click’ chemistry used to tag proteins made by cancer cells 

Drug Discovery World

The new method involves adding chemical tags to sugar molecules which are added to cells. When the cells make these proteins, they remain marked with the chemical tag, meaning that researchers can identify them. . The method uses bioorthogonal or ‘click’ chemistry, which was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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Biogen, Eisai Alzheimer’s drug lecanemab fast tracked by FDA

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Biogen and Eisai head towards the end of the year with some much-needed good news in their Alzheimer’s programmes, as the FDA awards a fast-track designation to lecanemab, their follow-up to recently approved Aduhelm.

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2021 Hansen Family Award goes to Professor Kai Johnsson

The Pharma Data

The Bayer Foundation has presented the Hansen Family Award, complete with its prize money of EUR 75,000, to Professor Kai Johnsson. using SNAP-tag) involves labeling cell proteins with a fluorescent dye, thereby enabling researchers to observe how proteins interact in the living cell and where in the cell they are located.

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Can gene therapies for haemophilia defend their high price tags?

Pharmaceutical Technology

In the EU however, two years later, the European Commission awarded a conditional marketing authorisation for Roctavian. million price tag. The post Can gene therapies for haemophilia defend their high price tags? BioMarin previously said that the treatment’s European price would likely be around EUR1.5 million ($1.5

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FDA Approval of First Rapid-Acting Oral Depression Drug + Approval of $2.8 Million Gene Therapy for Rare Blood Disorder – Xtalks Life Science Podcast Ep. 75

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Bluebird bio was awarded the approval for its gene therapy Zynteglo (beti-cel), which is a one-time treatment for the rare blood disorder. Hear more about the therapy, some of the setbacks bluebird has had to face on the road to its approval and why the treatment has a steep price tag.

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Jolly Good/Teijin Pharma develop VR digital therapeutics for depression

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Jolly Good has already won a “Home Healthcare Award” in a programme held by Teijin in December last year. However Nokia famously ran into trouble when it tried to develop VR products for digital health and its OZO camera failed to catch on, mainly because of a high $60,000 price tag.