For decades, the pharmaceutical industry has invested heavily in scientific innovation, regulatory rigor, clinical development, manufacturing quality, and commercial excellence. Yet one of the most important links between innovation and patient impact has remained...
Merck has completed its $6.7 billion acquisition of Terns Pharmaceuticals, gaining control of TERN-701, an investigational oral CML treatment that the pharmaceutical giant hopes will become a cornerstone of its expanding cancer portfolio. The deal, which closed on 5...
Starting, 1 July, millions of Medicare enrollees will gain coverage for weight-loss drugs for the first time, through a temporary pilot programme called the Medicare GLP-1 Bridge. The scheme covers Zepbound, Foundayo and Wegovy at a $50 monthly copayment and marks the...
In the medical field, being “authorized” and “qualified” are two very different things. Authorized generally indicates you have the legal right to practice. Qualified means you have the expertise, experience, and skill needed to practice effectively. The distinction...
The rise of GLP-1 medications has changed the conversation around obesity faster than almost anything we have seen in modern medicine. What was once dismissed as a simple issue of “willpower” is finally being recognised as something far more biologically complex....
CagriSema, the once-weekly obesity therapy from Novo Nordisk, has spent more than a year as the most closely watched candidate in metabolic medicine. The combination of cagrilintide and semaglutide promised weight loss beyond what either molecule could achieve alone....
The arrival of two approved oral GLP-1 weight loss therapies in the space of four months has fundamentally redrawn the obesity treatment landscape in 2026. For years, the question of whether a daily pill could ever match the efficacy of a weekly injection was largely...
For decades, oncology ran on a handful of dominant modalities: surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy, later joined by targeted therapies and immunotherapy. Radiopharmaceuticals have now entered that conversation as a serious contender. These drugs combine a...
China has overtaken the United States in the annual number of drug clinical trials. It is a sentence that would have seemed implausible a decade ago. Today, it is simply fact, and the implications for drug development, global pharma strategy, and geopolitical...
Drug development continues to concentrate on a small set of well-known targets, creating a crowded landscape where many companies pursue similar pathways. While research into novel mechanisms continues, familiar targets often take priority, reflecting a cautious...
The global pharmaceutical industry is approaching what many analysts are calling the largest patent cliff biologics in its history. This pharma patent cliff biologics analysts have long anticipated is now arriving in force. Between 2025 and 2030, drugs collectively...
Originally published 15 May 2026. Updated 28 June 2026 to reflect the latest approved indications, pipeline data, and access developments. GLP-1 receptor agonists have moved from specialist diabetes clinics to mainstream medicine with remarkable speed. Once known...
A generation of transformative therapies is arriving for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Gene therapies have reached the clinic. Oral small molecules targeting the fundamental biology of the disease are entering clinical trials. Newborn screening programmes are being...
The global obesity drug market is in the midst of its most competitive period in a generation. Since the approval of semaglutide as Wegovy and tirzepatide as Zepbound, pharmaceutical companies and investors have been watching closely for the next therapy capable of...
The obesity treatment landscape shifted decisively on 1 April 2026, when the US Food and Drug Administration approved Foundayo (orforglipron), an oral once-daily glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist developed by Eli Lilly. The decision marks the arrival of...
For most of the twentieth century, the global pharmaceutical industry operated on a straightforward geographic logic. Drugs were discovered and developed in North America and Western Europe, approved by the FDA and EMA, and then exported to the rest of the world. The...
AI developments are happening at breakneck speed, with every sector and industry seeking new opportunities to seize and capitalise upon. AI-driven research is creating a fundamental shift for pharmaceutical competitive intelligence, moving away from a reactive, manual...
The pharmaceutical press is having a very loud year. Eli Lilly's investigational triple-agonist retatrutide has produced the kind of phase 2 data that clinicians usually only see in editorials about the future, up to 24.2% mean body-weight reduction at 48 weeks in the...