Merck is buying Cidara Therapeutics for $9.2B, picking up an experimental flu therapy as it looks to broaden its pipeline.

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The FDA approved a drug made by Kura Oncology to treat patients with a certain type of genetically altered leukemia.

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Marty Makary and Vinay Prasad offered a roadmap for expanding access to custom gene-editing treatments like the one used to ...

What does Rick Pazdur's new role mean for the FDA? And how much credit can the president take for lowering GLP-1 drug prices?

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FDA Commissioner Marty Makary and biologics chief Vinay Prasad have sketched out the agency’s first real blueprint for ...

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Republicans want to replace enhanced ACA tax credits with direct payments to individuals. Their think tank allies aren’t so ...