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The company is touting the platform as the first fully digital clinical trial solution for oncology, hematology, and urology.

Six months after its official launch by Flagship Ventures, Massachusetts-based Vesalius Therapeutics is laying off 43% of its staff. With a current headcount of 67, the company is slashing 29 jobs.

Both Bristol-Myers Squibb and AbbVie separately filed notices with the California state government stating they intend to lay off up to 360 people in the state.

Makers of the top selling drugs in the United States are costing patients billions of dollars and worsening a drug pricing crisis by abusing the U.S. patent system to stifle competition and inflate prices, a consumer group said on Thursday,

BMS announced that the FDA approved Sotyktu for adults with moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis, marking this indication’s first oral treatment innovation in nearly a decade.

Drug development can be done better, faster and less expensively. The industry is facing up to that reality, moving a variety of disruptive innovations forward with the blessing of regulators.

Drugmakers are launching new medicines at record-high prices this year, a Reuters analysis has found, highlighting their pricing power even as Congress moves to cut the $500 billion-plus annual bill for prescription drugs in the United States.

The biopharma industry’s response to the global pandemic has propelled some COVID-19 vaccines into the leading ranks of the world’s best-selling products, with Pfizer/BioNTech’s Comirnaty surpassing AbbVie’s Humira for the No. 1 spot.

Within the next eight years, more than 3.5 million people in the United States are expected to be diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease. With those rising numbers in mind, Bristol Myers Squibb is doubling down on treating the condition with a nearly $2 billion partnership with GentiBio to develop Treg therapies for patients with IBD.

Few U.S. adults diagnosed with hepatitis C virus infections receive timely treatment with antiviral drugs, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday.