Diagnostics

While GLP-1 drugs have exploded in popularity, they don’t work for everyone, and experts say phenotyping based on a greater understanding of the disease is the future of obesity treatment.
Following a U.S. appeals court decision, the company said it is preparing to divest GRAIL through a third-party sale or capital markets transaction.
Social media campaigns may have been one factor that prompted Johnson & Johnson and Danaher to make a TB treatment and a test more accessible in low- and middle-income countries.
The Pharma Proteomics Project isn’t the first precompetitive collaboration between pharma companies, but it’s one of the largest. Members recently published associations they’ve uncovered in UK Biobank data.
The European Commission on Thursday ordered Illumina to divest Grail, opening the next chapter in the years-long regulatory saga. Illumina is reviewing the order, Reuters reported.
After its prostate cancer therapy was not included in Medicare’s initial drug price negotiation list, Astellas dismissed its Inflation Reduction Act lawsuit this week, while Illumina got new leadership.
With new Alzheimer’s drugs receiving—and expected to receive—FDA approval, the market for diagnostic biomarker tests is set to expand.
Some experts question the value of recently issued FDA guidance that aims to address gaps in the quality of unapproved laboratory tests for cancer.
Amid a re-energized Alzheimer’s disease space, Quest Diagnostics offers what the company contends is the first direct-to-consumer blood-based biomarker test to assess disease risk.
Francis deSouza resigned from Illumina’s helm after strong campaigning from activist investor Carl Icahn and the ongoing regulatory roadblocks facing the company’s acquisition of GRAIL.
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