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FDA approves gene-editing tech creating PRRS-resistant pigs
On Apr. 30, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the use of a gene-editing technology…
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Cartoon Illustrating “The NIH and U.S. Healthcare in Crisis” Published
On Apr. 21, 2025, LifeScienceHistory.com published the cartoon: “The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and U.S. Healthcare in…
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FDA Announces Plan to Phase Out Animal Testing Requirement for Monoclonal Antibodies and Other Drugs
On Apr. 10, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it is taking a groundbreaking step to…
Revvity Secures FDA Approval for Improved Automated Latent Tuberculosis Test
On Apr. 2, 2025, Revvity announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Auto-Pure…
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HHS starts layoffs of thousands of workers across its agencies
On Apr. 1, 2025, layoff notices began arriving for thousands of employees of the sprawling U.S. Department of…
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FDA Approved Qfitlia™ (fitusiran), the First siRNA (RNAi Therapeutic) for the Treatment of Hemophilia A or B
On Mar. 28, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced approval of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Qfitlia™ (fitusiran),…
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Alnylam Announces FDA Approval of AMVUTTRA® (vutrisiran), the First RNAi Therapeutic to Reduce Cardiovascular Death, Hospitalizations and Urgent Heart Failure Visits in Adults with ATTR Amyloidosis
On Mar. 20, 2025, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of the supplemental…
FDA Releases Influenza Vaccine Composition for the 2025-2026 U.S. Influenza Season
On Mar. 13, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced recommendations to vaccine manufacturers for the…
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FDA approves ENCELTO, a first-of-its-kind eye implant that slows vision loss in rare eye disease
On Mar. 6, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the approval of ENCELTO (revakinagenetaroretcel-lwey), a…
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FDA Approves Genentech’s TNKase® in Acute Ischemic Stroke in Adults
On Mar. 3, 2025, Genentech announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved TNKase® (tenecteplase),…
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FDA approves ODACTRA® for the treatment of house dust mite allergy in young children
On Feb. 27, 2025, ALK announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved ALK’s ODACTRA®…
Hologic Announces FDA Clearance of Aptima SARS-CoV-2 Assay
On Feb. 18, 2025, Hologic announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance…
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FDA Approves Genentech’s Evrysdi Tablet as First and Only Tablet for Spinal Muscular Atrophy
On Feb. 12, 2025, Genentech announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a New…
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FDA Approves Genentech’s Susvimo as the First and Only Continuous Delivery Treatment for the Leading Cause of Diabetes-Related Blindness
On Feb. 4, 2025, Genentech announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved Susvimo® (ranibizumab…
FDA Approves Novel Non-Opioid Treatment for Moderate to Severe Acute Pain
On Jan. 30, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Vertex Pharmaceuticals’s Journavx (suzetrigine) 50 milligram…
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FDA approves Ozempic® (semaglutide) as only GLP-1 RA to reduce the risk of worsening kidney disease and cardiovascular death in adults with type 2 diabetes and CKD
On Jan. 28, 2025, Novo Nordisk announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Ozempic® to…
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U.S. FDA drops Support improving clinical trial diversity
Jan. 24, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pulled draft guidance from its website requiring companies…
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U.S. FDA Revokes Authorization for the Use of Red No. 3 in Food and Ingested Drugs
On Jan. 15, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced revoking the authorization for the use…
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U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved 50 new therapeutics in 2024
On Jan. 14, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) announced…
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FDA Issues Final Guidance for Industry on Action Levels for Lead in Processed Food for Babies and Young Children
On Jan. 6, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued guidance for industry on the action…
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U.S. FDA Approved Pfizer’s BRAFTOVI® Combination Regimen as First-Line Treatment of BRAF V600E-Mutant Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
On Dec. 20, 2024, Pfizer announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved BRAFTOVI® (encorafenib)…
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FDA approved Alhemo® injection as once-daily prophylactic treatment to reduce frequency of bleeding episodes for adults and children 12 years of age and older with hemophilia A or B
On Dec. 20, 2024, Novo Nordisk announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved Alhemo®…
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FDA updates Definition of “Healthy Foods” For Packaging, first time in three decades
On Dec. 19, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it had updated the definition of “healthy…
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National Academies of Sciences Report Addresses Misinformation About Science
On Dec. 18, 2024, the National Academies of Sciences released a report showing the current information ecosystem makes…
AquaBounty Announced Plans to Cease Fish Farming Operations
On Dec. 11, 2024 the Board of Directors of AquaBounty Technologies announced that the Company was winding down…
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FDA approved AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi for limited-stage small cell lung cancer
On Dec. 4, 2024, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced approved of AstraZeneca’s blockbuster drug Imfinzi…
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COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage Among U.S. Adults reported below 20%
On Nov. 21, 2024, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that by the week…
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White House Released Report on Growing U.S. Biomanufacturing Capacity for the American Bioeconomy
On Nov. 15, 2024, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released a report on Building…
FDA Approved First Gene Therapy for Treatment of Aromatic L-amino Acid Decarboxylase Deficiency
On Nov. 14, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved PTC Therapeutics’ Kebilidi (eladocagene exuparvovec-tneq), an adeno-associated…
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FDA Investigation of E. coli outbreak from McDonald’s Onions Completed
On Nov. 13, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control…