The big buzz around AI in healthcare is the potential it holds to identify and even create new drugs. “AI drug discovery” is the great new hope. And – despite critics awkwardly pointing out that no AI-generated drugs have yet been approved by any regulator, and vanishing few appear to be close to that finishing […]
Firstly, congratulations to the team at Verona Pharma on their incredible $10bn dollar deal with Merck! And to Actithera on their oversubscribed $75.5M Series A – a great achievement in the current market. Huge congratulations also go to the incomparable Clive Cookson on receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Association of British Science Writers […]
Challenges to pharma charging premium prices for branded drugs are not new. Think of President Biden’s attempts to drive down prices with the Inflation Reduction Act. Or the UK’s strategy of capping the price the NHS pays for branded medicines with its VPAG rebate scheme. But President Trump’s “most favoured nation” policy – which attempts […]
The catastrophic fall from grace of the genetic testing app 23 and Me is a salutary lesson for all companies that espouse the use of “big data” in healthcare. Once a leading digital health tech firm, worth $6 billion as recently as 2021, the company is now on the verge of being taken private at […]
OZEMPIC, Wegovy, Mounjaro, Zepbound: they’ve quickly become part of our vocabulary. In just a few years, powerful GLP-1 drugs, first introduced to control Type 2 diabetes but now much better known for their ability to help people rapidly lose weight, have become indispensable weapons in the Battle of the Bulge. In the UK alone, some […]
