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Obesity Drug News: GLP-1 Readouts and Approval Watch

Obesity Drug News: GLP-1 Readouts and Approval Watch

This page is the running record of obesity drug news at Life Science Daily News. It tracks what moved in the obesity and GLP-1 pipeline each month. Entries cover trial readouts, regulatory filings, approvals and label expansions. New entries are added monthly, with...

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Beyond Weight Loss: What Emerging GLP-1 Research Reveals

Beyond Weight Loss: What Emerging GLP-1 Research Reveals

For many years, the perception of obesity and metabolic syndrome has largely been framed within the context of lifestyle and individual choices. However, an unprecedented paradigm shift is taking place as researchers gain a more profound insight into the physiological...

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GLP-1 Side Effects: What the Evidence Actually Says

GLP-1 Side Effects: What the Evidence Actually Says

An estimated 1.6 million adults in Great Britain used a GLP-1 or dual GLP-1/GIP medicine for weight loss in the year to early 2025. The MHRA has strengthened UK product information for these medicines twice since January 2026. Despite that scale of use, the evidence...

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Clinical Trials Roundup | 03 July 2026

Clinical Trials Roundup | 03 July 2026

Genmab and AbbVie's epcoritamab meets its primary endpoint in a Phase 3 trial for relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, the FDA approves Orca Bio's Tregzi as the first regulatory T-cell therapy to reduce chronic graft-versus-host disease in blood...

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FDA Accelerated Approval: How the Fast-Track Pathway Works

FDA Accelerated Approval: How the Fast-Track Pathway Works

FDA accelerated approval is one of the agency's most powerful and most debated regulatory tools. Designed to speed access to treatments for patients with serious or life-threatening conditions, it has delivered transformative therapies to those with no other options....

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Beyond Animal Models: iPSC Assays Unlock the Human Brain

Beyond Animal Models: iPSC Assays Unlock the Human Brain

For decades, neurodegenerative research has relied heavily on animal models. While transgenic mice and rats have yielded fundamental insights into the architecture of the central nervous system, they consistently hit a translational roadblock when applied to human...

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AI Transparency Gap in SaMD Regulation

AI Transparency Gap in SaMD Regulation

Artificial intelligence is no longer on the horizon of medical device regulation — it’s already on regulators’ desks. The FDA’s iterative guidance on AI/ML-based Software as a Medical Device (SaMD), the EU AI Act’s risk classification scheme, and Health Canada’s...

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Merck’s $6.7bn Terns Deal: A New Oral CML Treatment

Merck’s $6.7bn Terns Deal: A New Oral CML Treatment

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...

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Weekly News Roundup | 29 June 2026

Weekly News Roundup | 29 June 2026

Life science news 29 June 2026: AbbVie and Merck KGaA announce blockbuster acquisitions totalling more than $22 billion, NICE recommends the first disease-modifying therapy for type 1 diabetes for NHS use, and Definium Therapeutics delivers a landmark Phase 3 result...

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Clinical Trials Roundup | 03 July 2026

Clinical Trials Roundup | 03 July 2026

Genmab and AbbVie's epcoritamab meets its primary endpoint in a Phase 3 trial for relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, the FDA approves Orca Bio's Tregzi as the first regulatory T-cell therapy to reduce chronic graft-versus-host disease in blood...

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FDA Accelerated Approval: How the Fast-Track Pathway Works

FDA Accelerated Approval: How the Fast-Track Pathway Works

FDA accelerated approval is one of the agency's most powerful and most debated regulatory tools. Designed to speed access to treatments for patients with serious or life-threatening conditions, it has delivered transformative therapies to those with no other options....

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Beyond Animal Models: iPSC Assays Unlock the Human Brain

Beyond Animal Models: iPSC Assays Unlock the Human Brain

For decades, neurodegenerative research has relied heavily on animal models. While transgenic mice and rats have yielded fundamental insights into the architecture of the central nervous system, they consistently hit a translational roadblock when applied to human...

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AI Transparency Gap in SaMD Regulation

AI Transparency Gap in SaMD Regulation

Artificial intelligence is no longer on the horizon of medical device regulation — it’s already on regulators’ desks. The FDA’s iterative guidance on AI/ML-based Software as a Medical Device (SaMD), the EU AI Act’s risk classification scheme, and Health Canada’s...

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Merck’s $6.7bn Terns Deal: A New Oral CML Treatment

Merck’s $6.7bn Terns Deal: A New Oral CML Treatment

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...

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Weekly News Roundup | 29 June 2026

Weekly News Roundup | 29 June 2026

Life science news 29 June 2026: AbbVie and Merck KGaA announce blockbuster acquisitions totalling more than $22 billion, NICE recommends the first disease-modifying therapy for type 1 diabetes for NHS use, and Definium Therapeutics delivers a landmark Phase 3 result...

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FDA Drug Approval Decisions

Last updated 31 July 2026. Covering target action dates from August to December 2026. The closing stretch of the third quarter has become the busiest regulatory window of 2026. Between early August and the end of September, the US Food and Drug Administration faces...
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Life Science Daily News: Eight Months of Growth and a Global Community Taking Shape

Life Science Daily News launched in November 2025 with a simple premise: that researchers, biotech founders, healthcare professionals, communications specialists and industry professionals should be able to publish their own work directly to a specialist audience,...
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CRISPR Gene Editing 2026: Rare Diseases, Cancer and Autoimmune

CRISPR gene editing in 2026 is no longer a technology to watch. It is a technology delivering results. Across three distinct disease areas, rare inherited conditions, haematologic and solid cancers, and autoimmune disease, clinical programmes are accumulating...
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The GLP-1 Drug Pipeline: Every Candidate to Watch in 2026

The GLP-1 drug pipeline has become one of the most consequential and closely watched in modern pharmaceutical history. In 2026, the class of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists is no longer defined solely by Ozempic and Wegovy. A new generation of oral tablets,...
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Anti-Ro52 vs Anti-Ro60: Advancing Sjögren’s Disease Diagnosis

Autoantibody testing is a central part of autoimmune disease diagnosis, including Sjögren’s disease (SjD). The American College of Rheumatology and European Alliance of Associations of Rheumatology (ACR/EULAR) classification criteria for SjD incorporate ocular and...

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Clinical Trials Roundup | 26 June 2026

Clinical Trials Roundup | 26 June 2026

This week's clinical trial results for 26 June 2026 deliver a landmark psychiatric result, a major oncology setback, and a decisive blow to one of the most watched platforms in regenerative medicine. Definium Therapeutics' DT120 becomes the first lysergide therapy to...

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Beyond the Screen: Why Spinal Care Must Be Symptom-Led

Beyond the Screen: Why Spinal Care Must Be Symptom-Led

In an era dominated by high-resolution diagnostics, the field of spinal care faces a profound paradox: while our ability to visualise cellular and structural anatomy has never been more advanced, the clinical efficacy of spinal interventions has not risen in tandem....

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Finding AF Before It Strikes: The Case for National Screening

Finding AF Before It Strikes: The Case for National Screening

There’s a concerning number of Australians living with a dangerous heart rhythm disorder - and many of them have no idea. Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a condition most people have never heard of and that’s a big problem, because it is already a silent cause of stroke. ...

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CAR-T Therapy Reaches Solid Tumours for the First Time

CAR-T Therapy Reaches Solid Tumours for the First Time

China's National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) approved satricabtagene autoleucel (satri-cel) on 22 June 2026, making it the world's first CAR-T cell therapy approved for a solid tumour. Developed by Shanghai-based CARsgen Therapeutics, satri-cel is cleared...

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Late-Stage Obesity Drugs: 7 to Watch Beyond Ozempic

Late-Stage Obesity Drugs: 7 to Watch Beyond Ozempic

The weight-loss revolution that began with Ozempic and Wegovy is entering a more crowded and competitive phase, and the field of late-stage obesity drugs has become the most closely watched area in pharmaceutical research. Two recent milestones show how fast the...

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Want the FDA to Make Peptides More Accessible?

As the FDA considers reclassifying seven popular peptides, experts say the decision could change how patients access these compounds. As the FDA evaluates whether several commonly used peptides should become eligible for pharmacy compounding, the outcome could...

The Scientist in the Loop: Why Biopharma R&D Still Needs Human Judgment

Two years into the biopharma industry's most sustained experiment with artificial intelligence, the honest answer to "what has changed" is not the one most conference keynotes suggest. It is not that biopharma AI now runs the laboratory. It is that AI has become very...

How Can We Protect a Failing Heart Using Your Own Mini-Hearts?

Cardiovascular disease in Australia claims one life every 12 minutes. The irreversible damage to the heart is known as heart failure, a condition that progressively prevents the heart from providing the proper amount of blood to our body. This means that patients will...

Early Recognition of Actinic Keratosis in an Aging Population

Healthy aging has changed dramatically over the past several decades. Preventive medicine has expanded well beyond treating disease to identifying health risks before they become serious problems. Today, patients routinely discuss blood pressure, cholesterol,...

Psychedelic Medicine Commercialization: Altered Perceptions

Lilly’s acquisition of AtaiBeckley validates the therapeutic and economic promise of rapid-acting neuroplastogens. It also raises a harder question: can commercial teams redesign the beliefs surrounding these medicines as effectively as scientists are redesigning the...

Safety, Toxicology, and Risk Assessment of Essential Oils

Essential oils are complex mixtures of volatile phytochemicals that have long been incorporated into traditional medicine, personal care products, aromatherapy, and topical therapeutic formulations. Their diverse biological activities—including antimicrobial,...

Weekly News Roundup | 27 July 2026

Life science news 27 July 2026: GSK wins its first lung cancer approval with a selective ROS1 inhibitor, Lilly's triple agonist retatrutide delivers up to 22.6 per cent weight loss in two pivotal trials, and the MHRA clears what it calls the world's first lower-carbon...

The Preclinical Bottleneck: Why Traditional Antibody Discovery Hits a Wall

The therapeutic landscape has been undeniably transformed by monoclonal antibodies (mAbs). From oncology to autoimmune disorders and emerging infectious diseases, mAbs represent one of the most powerful modalities in modern medicine. However, the initial phase of...

Exploring the Role of Astrocytes in MND With Translatable Human Cell Models

Motor Neuron Disease (MND) is characterised by the progressive loss of motor neurons. Despite years of research into the disease, effective treatments remain extremely limited and half of patients pass away within two years of diagnosis. To date there is no cure for...

Clinical Trials Roundup | 24 July 2026

Merck's enlicitide receives FDA approval as the first oral PCSK9 inhibitor for adults with hypercholesterolaemia, GSK's zidesamtinib earns FDA approval as a next-generation ROS1 selective inhibitor for previously treated non-small cell lung cancer, GSK's camlipixant...

New Platform Pairly’s Rapid Growth Highlights Urgent Need to Simplify UK Social Care

An entrepreneur whose father died before care at home could be arranged has built a digital platform that is transforming how families find care across the UK. After experiencing first-hand how difficult it was to arrange support for his own father, Pairly co-founder...

How Blood-Based Testing Could Close the Cancer Detection Gap

We have made real progress against cancer through better therapies, stronger treatments, and more precise diagnostics. Yet liver cancer, one of the fastest-rising causes of cancer-related death in the United States, remains a painful reminder that innovation does not...

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