Specific doses of Eli Lilly’s GLP-1 blockbuster drugs Mounjaro and Zepbound are currently facing a supply shortage, and frustrated patients are urging the pharma giant to act – fast.
Pharma giant Novo Nordisk is firing back after Senator Bernie Sanders took a stand against the ‘outrageous’ prices of its wildly popular drugs, Ozempic and Wegovy.
Eli Lilly is partnering with ecommerce titan Amazon to deliver its weight loss drug Zepbound straight to patient’s doors, in a bid to address ongoing shortages.
The unprecedented demand for GLP-1 medicines, fuelled by their remarkable ability to help patients shed up to 20% of body weight, has been nothing short of explosive.
Novo Nordisk is set to acquire three manufacturing facilities from contract development and manufacturing organization Catalent, in a bold move that has sparked a great deal of debate and some backlash.
Abbott and Tandem Diabetes Care recently announced the wireless integration of Abbott’s FreeStyle Libre 2 Plus continuous glucose monitor with the Tandem t:slim X2 insulin pump in the US.
Novo Nordisk's Ozempic (semaglutide) took the weight loss sector by storm in 2023, propelled by strong efficacy and safety data, coupled with social media buzz and celebrity endorsements that elevated the drug to mainstream prominence.
Eli Lilly’s blockbuster type 2 diabetes (T2B) drug Mounjaro is likely to become the dominant therapy in obesity and T2D, due to significant weight loss induced by it, says GlobalData.
Sales of branded anti-obesity drugs (AOB) could hit $44 billion in 2030 vs. $2.5 billion in 2022, with just under 70% stemming from the US, according to a report from Bloomberg Intelligence.
Protein drugs are notoriously difficult to deliver orally – but scientists have developed a new type of oral capsule that could deliver insulin and other similar drugs.
The South Korean company is set to create a new facility in West Virginia to house insulin manufacturing and to deliver its insulin products in the country.
Vertex will pay CRISPR Therapeutics $100m up-front for non-exclusive rights to its technology with the goal of developing a certain type of therapy for diabetes.
Sanofi will acquire US-based Provention Bio: gaining Tzield (teplizumab-mzwv), which was approved by the FDA last year as the first and only therapy to delay the onset of Stage 3 type 1 diabetes.
CDMO AGC Biologics will produce Tzield (teplizumab-mzwv), a recently-approved T1D treatment from Provention Bio, at its Seattle protein biologics manufacturing site.
Oramed Pharmaceuticals, a company focused on the development of oral drug delivery platforms, has signed an exclusive commercial distribution agreement for the Republic of Korea with local player, Medicox Co Ltd, in relation to its oral insulin candidate....
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Provention Bio’s Tzield (teplizumab-mzwv) to delay the onset of stage 3 type 1 diabetes: with the American Diabetes Association welcoming it as a 'tremendous accomplishment'.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals will acquire ViaCyte, a privately held biotech focused on delivering novel stem cell-derived cell replacement therapies as a functional cure for type 1 diabetes (T1D), for $320m.
Sernova and Evotec are teaming up on an implantable beta cell replacement therapy to replace insulin injections for the millions of patients with diabetes.
Oramed Pharmaceuticals announced this week that it has enrolled 100% of the patients in the world’s first Phase 3 study of oral insulin under FDA approved protocols.
CRISPR Therapeutics and ViaCyte, Inc. have received the green light from Health Canada for their Clinical Trial Application for VCTX210: an allogeneic, gene-edited, immune-evasive, stem cell-derived therapy for the treatment of type 1 diabetes (T1D)....
Takara Bio Europe has announced a licensing agreement with Denmark’s PanCryos, a pre-clinical stage biotech company, for its clinical-grade human embryonic stem (hES) cell lines, starting material for cell therapy development.
Abbott’s glucose sensing technology and a tubeless insulin delivery system developed by Insulet are set to create a personalized diabetes management solution.
