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Ozempic Can Treat Fatty Liver Disease

Drugs.com

THURSDAY, May 1, 2025 -- The cutting-edge weight-loss drug Ozempic/Wegovy can stop and even reverse fatty liver disease, a new clinical trial has found.Nearly twice as many people taking semaglutide stopped their fatty liver disease without further.

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Oceans are heating faster in two bands stretching around globe

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

The world's oceans are heating faster in two bands stretching around the globe, one in the southern hemisphere and one in the north, according to climate scientists.

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AstraZeneca quietly exits neuroscience

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The company removed experimental drugs for Alzheimer’s, migraine and pain from its pipeline to focus more resources on “core therapeutic areas” and “high value” programs.

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Human Fertility Levels Need To Be Higher To Avoid Extinction

Drugs.com

THURSDAY, May 1, 2025 Billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has made headlines with dire warnings that declining birth rates are an existential crisis for humanity.The threat might be even more dire than Musk (the father of at least 14) says, a ne.

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Bridging Innovation & Patient Care: The Growing Role of AI

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Co-founder & CEO at Tattva.Health

AI is transforming clinical trials—accelerating drug discovery, optimizing patient recruitment, and improving data analysis. But its impact goes far beyond research. As AI-driven innovation reshapes the clinical trial process, it’s also influencing broader healthcare trends, from personalized medicine to patient outcomes. Join this new webinar featuring Simran Kaur for an insightful discussion on what all of this means for the future of healthcare!

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CVS strikes Wegovy deal with Novo Nordisk

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The deal could expand access to its in-demand obesity drug at the expense of Eli Lilly, whose shares fell by double digits on Thursday.

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Ptero firma: Footprints pinpoint when ancient flying reptiles conquered the ground

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A new study links fossilized flying reptile tracks to animals that made them. Fossilized footprints reveal a 160-million-year-old invasion as pterosaurs came down from the trees and onto the ground. Tracks of giant ground-stalkers, comb-jawed coastal waders, and specialized shell crushers, shed light on how pterosaurs lived, moved, and evolved.

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Do You Have Tinnitus? The Answer Might Be Written In Your Face

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THURSDAY, May 1, 2025 Subtle facial gestures linked to the bodys fight-or-flight response could be used to help diagnose people with tinnitus, a new study says.Video recordings showed that people with tinnitus experienced facial twitches and pup.

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Siren, a gene therapy startup, tests unconventional alternative to venture funding

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Siren Biotechnology is trying to raise $5 million via the type of crowdfunding round that’s rarely used by young drugmakers.

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Biological Aging Increases Dementia Risk

Drugs.com

THURSDAY, May 1, 2025 -- People whose bodies are aging faster could be more likely to develop dementia than those with normal or slower aging, a new study says.Folks with advanced biological age are about 30% more likely to develop dementia.

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From Diagnosis to Delivery: How AI is Revolutionizing the Patient Experience

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.

The healthcare landscape is being revolutionized by AI and cutting-edge digital technologies, reshaping how patients receive care and interact with providers. In this webinar led by Simran Kaur, we will explore how AI-driven solutions are enhancing patient communication, improving care quality, and empowering preventive and predictive medicine. You'll also learn how AI is streamlining healthcare processes, helping providers offer more efficient, personalized care and enabling faster, data-driven

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Electricity-generating bacteria may power future innovations

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A team has discovered how certain bacteria breathe by generating electricity, using a natural process that pushes electrons into their surroundings instead of breathing on oxygen. The findings could enable new developments in clean energy and industrial biotechnology.

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Epilepsy, Anxiety Meds Don't Increase Suicide Risk

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THURSDAY, May 1, 2025 A class of drugs used to treat epilepsy, nerve pain and anxiety do not appear to increase a persons risk of self-harm, a major new study says.Gabapentinoids which include gabapentin and pregabalin have been associated wi.

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Good karma for me, bad karma for you

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Many people around the world believe in karma -- that idea that divine justice will punish people who do bad deeds and reward those who good. But that belief plays out differently for oneself versus others, according to new research.

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Florida Moves to Ban Fluoride in Drinking Water

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THURSDAY, May 1, 2025 Florida state lawmakers have approved a bill to ban the addition of fluoride to public drinking water, a move that public health experts say could harm dental health across the state.The bill now heads to Florida Gov. Ron D.

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How Machine Learning Drives Clinical Trial Efficiency

Clinical trial data management is increasingly challenging as studies grow in complexity. Quickly accessing and analyzing study data is vital for assessing trial progress and patient safety. In this paper, we explore real-time data access and analysis for proactive study management. We investigate using adverse event (AE) data to monitor safety and discuss a clinical analytics platform that supports collaboration and data review workflows.

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Lava flow jigsaw puzzle reveals the secrets of shifting continents

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Analysing lava flows that solidified and then broke apart over a massive crack in the Earth's crust in Turkey has brought new insights into how continents move over time, improving our understanding of earthquake risks.

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FDA Commissioner: No Major Reorganization, Just Smart Reforms

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THURSDAY, May 1, 2025 Dr. Marty Makary had just finished his last surgery at Johns Hopkins when he stepped into one of the most powerful roles in American public health. Now, as the new commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

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Artificial sense of touch, improved

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

While exploring a digitally represented object through artificially created sense of touch, brain-computer interface users described the warm fur of a purring cat, the smooth rigid surface of a door key and cool roundness of an apple.

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Madrigal’s MASH drug sales again top Wall Street projections

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Rezdiffra sales reached $137 million for the quarter, beating consensus analyst estimates by more than $20 million and continuing a faster-than-expected drug launch.

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Deliver Fast, Flexible Clinical Trial Insights with Spotfire

Clinical research has entered a new era, one that requires real-time analytics and visualization to allow trial leaders to work collaboratively and to develop, at the click of a mouse, deep insights that enable proactive study management. Learn how Revvity Signals helps drug developers deliver clinical trial data insights in real-time using a fast and flexible data and analytics platform to empower data-driven decision-making.

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Why did some ancient animals fossilize while others vanished?

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Why do some ancient animals become fossils while others disappear without a trace? A new study reveals that part of the answer lies in the body itself. The research shows that an animal's size and chemical makeup can play an important role in determining whether it's preserved for millions of years -- or lost to time.

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Arvinas, Entrada cut staff; Merck builds US hub for Keytruda

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Arvinas is laying off about a third of its workforce, while Entrada is focusing more on Duchenne research. Elsewhere, Biogen talked down tariff impacts and Merck earmarked $1 billion for a biologics production plant.

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Designer microbe shows promise for reducing mercury absorption from seafood

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Scientists inserted DNA-encoding methylmercury detoxification enzymes into the genome of an abundant human gut bacterium. The engineered bacterium detoxified methylmercury in the gut of mice and dramatically reduced the amount that reached other tissues, such as the brain and liver. Mice given an oral probiotic containing the engineered microbe and fed a diet high in bluefin tuna had much lower methylmercury levels than expected, suggesting that a probiotic might eventually make it safer for peo

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Gabapentinoid Meds Don't Increase Suicide Risk

Drugs.com

THURSDAY, May 1, 2025 — A class of drugs used to treat epilepsy, nerve pain and anxiety do not appear to increase a person’s risk of self-harm, a major new study says. Gabapentinoids – which include gabapentin and pregabalin.

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Clinical Data Like You´ve Never Seen It Before: Why Spotfire Is the Leading Tool for Clinical Analytics

Clinical development organizations face a wide array of challenges when it comes to data, many of which can impact the operational effectiveness of their clinical trials. In this whitepaper, experts from Revvity Signals explore how solutions like TIBCO® Spotfire® enable better, more streamlined studies. The whitepaper also features a success story from Ambrx, a leading biopharmaceutical company, detailing how it has leveraged Spotfire to tackle data quality and collaboration challenges in clinic

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Gaia spots odd family of stars desperate to leave home

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

The European Space Agency's Gaia mission has spotted an unusual family of stars all strangely eager to leave home -- a family we couldn't have discovered without the star-surveying spacecraft, and one unlike all others we have spotted to date.

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Top Science Journal Suspends Submissions Amid Budget Cuts

Drugs.com

THURSDAY, May 1, 2025 A well-known U.S. science journal focused on environmental health has stopped accepting new studies, raising alarms among researchers who rely on it heavily.Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP), a journal funded by the N.

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Access to HPM’s Free FDA Enforcement Webinar Now Available!

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

Thanks to everyone who joined us today. We are excited that you were able to join us for our discussion of enforcement under the new FDA. We hope you enjoyed a lively conversation. We appreciated all of the questions we received from the audience. If you were unable to join, you can still watch our recorded webinar here. Stay tuned for news on future webinars this summer!

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Study Finds Flourishing Doesn’t Always Mean Happiness

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THURSDAY, May 1, 2025 Flourishing is more than just being happy, and a new global study finds some countries are doing better than others when it comes to overall well-being.Take it from researchers at Baylor and Harvard universities, who u.

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Is your heart aging too fast?

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers have developed a revolutionary new way to find out the 'true age' of your heart using MRI. A new study shows how an MRI scan can reveal your heart's functional age -- and how unhealthy lifestyles can dramatically accelerate this figure. It is hoped that the findings could transform how heart disease is diagnosed -- offering a lifeline to millions by catching problems before they become deadly.

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Moderna combination flu, COVID shot delayed amid FDA scrutiny

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Additional data required by the FDA are the latest evidence of what one analyst described as a “higher bar” for vaccines.

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Rhythmically trained sea lion returns for an encore -- and performs as well as humans

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Animal research on biomusicality, which looks at whether different species are capable of behaving in ways that show they recognize aspects of music, including rhythm and beat, remains a tantalizing field at the intersection of biology and psychology. Now, the highly trained California sea lion who achieved global fame for her ability to bob her head to a beat is finally back: starring in a new study that shows her rhythm is just as precise -- if not better -- than humans.

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Annual Pharmaceutical Sales Estimates Using Patents: A Comprehensive Analysis

Drug Patent Watch

"Patent Clarity in the $1.2 Trillion Industry: A closer look at the numbers reveals that pharmaceutical patents are more than just intellectual property - they're a window into the future of the industry. At DrugPatentWatch, we've been analyzing patent data to estimate annual pharmaceutical sales. The results are staggering: Top 10 pharmaceuticals account for 25% of total sales 50% of top-selling medications will lose patent protection by 2025 The top 5 therapeutic areas driving sales growt