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Biogen to pay $900m to settle whistleblower’s MS drug kickback lawsuit

For pursuing the case, the former employee will receive about $250m

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Pfizer and BioNTech seek FDA authorisation for COVID-19 booster for children

An application will also be submitted to the European Medicines Agency to extend the marketing authorisation for this age group

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Pfizer and Sangamo Therapeutics reopen recruitment for haemophilia A gene therapy trial

The trial was voluntarily paused by the two partners last year and later placed on hold by the FDA

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Pfizer to supply 6 million Paxlovid treatments to low- and middle-income countries

Eligible countries will be offered treatment courses according to Pfizer’s tiered pricing approach

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Biogen’s tofersen shows promise in rare form of ALS in new data analysis

Mutations in the SOD1 gene are responsible for approximately 2% of global ALS cases

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Pfizer’s investigational meningococcal vaccine shows promise in phase 3 trial

There is currently no single vaccine available in the US to help protect against the main five serogroups

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Neuron23 and QIAGEN partner to develop companion diagnostic for Parkinson’s disease

No laboratory tests are currently available for diagnosing the disease in non-genetic cases

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Pfizer doses first patients with mRNA-based influenza vaccine

Available vaccine strains that match circulating influenza viruses offer only 40%-60% protection

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CuraSen Therapeutics doses first patients with novel combination therapy in dementia study

CuraSen Therapeutics doses first patients with novel combination therapy in dementia study

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Pfizer/BioNTech BA.1 COVID-19 booster receives CHMP recommendation

If an authorisation is granted, doses of the bivalent booster will be available to all 27 EU member states

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Pfizer announces positive phase 3 results of RSV vaccine candidate in older adults

It is estimated that RSV infections in older adults account for 177,000 hospitalisations and 14,000 deaths each year in the US alone

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Study found Pfizer’s Paxlovid only helped over 65s avoid hospitalisation and death

Researchers studied data from 109,000 patients – nearly all of whom had been vaccinated against COVID-19, been previously infected, or both

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