Everything You Need to Know About the AstraZeneca–Bristol Myers Squibb Merger Rumors

Five major pharma stories in one day — Novo's rebrand and AI bets, Bayer's 30-year CKD first, GSK's T-cell engager, and Sanofi's portfolio exit.

Orbis Medicines strikes a partnership with Novo, Dualitas Therapeutics enters collaboration with Roche, and Aethlon Medical has agreed to merge with North Immunology.

Novo teams up with Anthropic on AI-driven drug discovery, Sling Therapeutics and Circle Pharma close major financing rounds, and IQVIA's Phil Ford makes the case for reimagining medical content as a loop rather than a pipeline.

Novo partners with Anthropic to deploy Claude for targeted drug discovery workflows and AI-driven software development.

FDA approves Ultragenyx's Fayuvi as the first treatment for Sanfilippo syndrome type A, Lisata Therapeutics acquires Marea Therapeutics as mAbxience partners with Sandoz on a hemophilia A biosimilar, and Joe Cunningham argues that executive drug-pricing deals alone won't fix costs.

Lisata Therapeutics acquires Marea Therapeutics and secures $225 million in concurrent financing, while mAbxience and Sandoz partner to develop and globally commercialize an emicizumab biosimilar.

FDA approved Ultragenyx's Fayuvi (rebisufligene etisparvovec-hopf) as the first treatment for MPS IIIA Sanfilippo syndrome type A.

Former Rep. Joe Cunningham (D-SC), now spokesperson for the Pharmaceutical Reform Alliance, argues that codifying Most-Favored-Nation pricing into law is the real fix for drug costs.