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FDA Drug Approval Decisions

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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Clinical Trials Roundup | 31 July 2026

Clinical Trials Roundup | 31 July 2026

An FDA advisory committee votes against Capricor Therapeutics' deramiocel in Duchenne muscular dystrophy cardiomyopathy, Pfizer's ritlecitinib meets its co-primary endpoints in two Phase 3 nonsegmental vitiligo trials, Karyopharm Therapeutics' selinexor misses its...

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The Security Blind Spot in Life Science Digitalization

The Security Blind Spot in Life Science Digitalization

The life sciences sector is in the midst of a digital transformation that most security teams were not built to handle. AI-driven drug discovery platforms, cloud-connected lab equipment, genomic databases, and real-time patient data pipelines are creating attack...

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Making AI Work in a Regulated Medtech Industry

Making AI Work in a Regulated Medtech Industry

For several years, AI has been viewed as one of the biggest opportunities for the medtech sector. With an industry survey finding that 91% of leaders were enthusiastic about its potential, early conversations centred on how it could transform healthcare delivery and...

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Biotech’s Missing Ingredient: Execution

Biotech’s Missing Ingredient: Execution

Biotech has never lacked scientific innovation. What the industry continues to underestimate is how difficult it is to turn promising science into an actual therapy that reaches patients.  Over the last several years, I have seen strong assets struggle for reasons...

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Weekly News Roundup | 25 May 2026

Weekly News Roundup | 25 May 2026

Life science news 25 May 2026: Lilly's retatrutide delivers bariatric-surgery-level weight loss in Phase 3, two landmark FDA approvals reshape oncology and hepatology, and a UK biotech targets the global AMR crisis. The week of 17 to 24 May 2026 delivered a dense...

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Clinical Trials Roundup | 22 May 2026

Clinical Trials Roundup | 22 May 2026

Merck's sacituzumab tirumotecan meets both primary endpoints in the pivotal Phase 3 TroFuse-005 trial for advanced endometrial cancer, Relay Therapeutics reports the first clinical evidence of PI3Kα mutant-selective inhibition in PIK3CA-driven vascular anomalies in...

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Oral vs Injectable GLP-1s: The 2026 Weight Loss Drug Shift

Oral vs Injectable GLP-1s: The 2026 Weight Loss Drug Shift

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...

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Why Neurology Clinical Trials Need Purpose-Built AI

Why Neurology Clinical Trials Need Purpose-Built AI

Each year on May 20, International Clinical Trials Day recognizes James Lind’s 1747 scurvy trial and the patients, clinicians, coordinators, sponsors and researchers who make clinical progress possible. It is also a moment to look honestly at where clinical research...

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What the Veppanu Approval Means for ESR1 Breast Cancer

What the Veppanu Approval Means for ESR1 Breast Cancer

The FDA's approval of Veppanu (vepdegestrant) marks the first regulatory clearance for a PROTAC in any disease area, and opens a new chapter in the treatment of ESR1-mutated advanced breast cancer. On 1 May 2026, the United States Food and Drug Administration approved...

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Biotech’s Missing Ingredient: Execution

Biotech’s Missing Ingredient: Execution

Biotech has never lacked scientific innovation. What the industry continues to underestimate is how difficult it is to turn promising science into an actual therapy that reaches patients.  Over the last several years, I have seen strong assets struggle for reasons...

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Weekly News Roundup | 25 May 2026

Weekly News Roundup | 25 May 2026

Life science news 25 May 2026: Lilly's retatrutide delivers bariatric-surgery-level weight loss in Phase 3, two landmark FDA approvals reshape oncology and hepatology, and a UK biotech targets the global AMR crisis. The week of 17 to 24 May 2026 delivered a dense...

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Clinical Trials Roundup | 22 May 2026

Clinical Trials Roundup | 22 May 2026

Merck's sacituzumab tirumotecan meets both primary endpoints in the pivotal Phase 3 TroFuse-005 trial for advanced endometrial cancer, Relay Therapeutics reports the first clinical evidence of PI3Kα mutant-selective inhibition in PIK3CA-driven vascular anomalies in...

read more
Oral vs Injectable GLP-1s: The 2026 Weight Loss Drug Shift

Oral vs Injectable GLP-1s: The 2026 Weight Loss Drug Shift

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...

read more
Why Neurology Clinical Trials Need Purpose-Built AI

Why Neurology Clinical Trials Need Purpose-Built AI

Each year on May 20, International Clinical Trials Day recognizes James Lind’s 1747 scurvy trial and the patients, clinicians, coordinators, sponsors and researchers who make clinical progress possible. It is also a moment to look honestly at where clinical research...

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What the Veppanu Approval Means for ESR1 Breast Cancer

What the Veppanu Approval Means for ESR1 Breast Cancer

The FDA's approval of Veppanu (vepdegestrant) marks the first regulatory clearance for a PROTAC in any disease area, and opens a new chapter in the treatment of ESR1-mutated advanced breast cancer. On 1 May 2026, the United States Food and Drug Administration approved...

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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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Agentic AI in Drug Discovery: Why Big Pharma is All in

Agentic AI in Drug Discovery: Why Big Pharma is All in

When Eli Lilly signed a deal worth up to $2.75 billion with AI drug developer Insilico Medicine in March 2026, it was the latest in a cascade of nine-figure and ten-figure commitments from the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies to a single emerging technology....

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Why Biopharma Must Invest in Novel Targets

Why Biopharma Must Invest in Novel Targets

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...

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Weekly News Roundup | 18 May 2026

Weekly News Roundup | 18 May 2026

Life science news 18 May 2026: FDA leadership turmoil, a landmark Alzheimer's breakthrough and a $15 billion China licensing deal define a historic week for the global industry. The week of 10 to 17 May 2026 delivered a concentration of high-impact events across...

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Biologics on the Brink: The Patent Cliff Facing Big Pharma

Biologics on the Brink: The Patent Cliff Facing Big Pharma

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...

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Clinical Trials Roundup | 15 May 2026

Clinical Trials Roundup | 15 May 2026

AstraZeneca's eneboparatide meets the Phase 3 CALYPSO primary endpoint in chronic hypoparathyroidism with full data presented at the European Congress of Endocrinology, Alkermes' LUMRYZ meets its primary endpoint in the Phase 3 REVITALYZ trial for idiopathic...

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Adipose Tissue Isn’t Just Storage: Fat as an Endocrine and Immune Organ

For much of the 20th century, body fat was viewed mainly as the body's energy reservoir—a passive tissue that stored excess calories for future use. While this remains an important function of adipose tissue, research over the past few decades has revealed a far more...

FDA Drug Approval Decisions to Watch: July and August 2026

The second half of 2026 is shaping up to be one of the most consequential periods for FDA drug approval decisions in recent memory. Between mid-July and late August, the US Food and Drug Administration faces a succession of Prescription Drug User Fee Act target action...

New Research On the Next Phase in Protecting Muscle During GLP-1 Treatment

When I wrote previously for this publication about the gap between GLP-1 prescribing rates and the clinical conversation around lean muscle preservation, the argument centred on a simple premise: weight loss is not fat loss, and the clinical infrastructure around...

Atacicept FDA Approval: Trutakna Cleared for IgAN

The atacicept FDA approval that the nephrology community had been anticipating since January arrived on schedule on 7 July 2026, when the US Food and Drug Administration granted accelerated approval to Vera Therapeutics' atacicept-vymj, to be marketed as Trutakna, for...

AI Trust in Healthcare Starts with the People in the Room

Healthcare is on an accelerated path to digitisation, creating real opportunity to reduce administrative burden, improve risk detection, support prioritisation, and help people access the right care sooner. But without deliberate design, these same systems risk...

The Regulatory Window for AI in Pharmacovigilance Is Open

In more than two decades of working with global CROs, pharmaceutical companies, and biotech organizations, I have watched pharmacovigilance teams absorb wave after wave of increasing complexity. More products on the market. More data sources to monitor. More...

Webinar: Decoding Neurodegeneration via iPSC-Derived Human Brain Models

The human brain presents an intricate evolutionary paradox. While its sophisticated neural networks govern complex cognition, its architecture is uniquely susceptible to progressive degradation. For decades, the biomedical community has grappled with an uncomfortable...

Why the Immune System Is Becoming the New Battlefield in Cancer Care

The Old Paradigm For more than a century, cancer treatment has been defined by a straightforward objective: find the tumor and destroy it. Surgery removes it, radiation damages it. Chemotherapy attacks rapidly dividing cells. These approaches have saved countless...

CE Marking Is Not Enough: Three Layers for Connected Medical Devices

If your device connects to a network and runs AI, CE marking under MDR or IVDR is only the first layer for connected medical devices. Two further EU frameworks, the AI Act and the Cyber Resilience Act, can also apply, each with obligations that go beyond what MDR...

When Months Become Days: AI’s Edge in Patient Engagement

Every therapy that reaches a patient first has to clear a quieter hurdle that rarely makes headlines: finding enough of the right people to test it. That hurdle is where most clinical programs stumble. Roughly 80% of clinical trials fail to meet their enrollment...

What My Stroke Recovery Taught Me About Mobility and Safer Care

After more than three decades in nursing, I have had the privilege of caring for patients during some of the most vulnerable moments of their lives. I have worked alongside extraordinary nurses, therapists, physicians, and support staff who dedicate themselves to...

Tregzi (Orca Bio): Inside the First Regulatory T-Cell Therapy for Blood Cancer

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved Tregzi, a regulatory T-cell therapy developed by Orca Bio. It is the first treatment built from highly purified regulatory T cells to reach the American market. The FDA cleared Tregzi on 30 June 2026. It is designed to...

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