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AbbVie Inc (ABBV.N) said on Thursday its board had approved a $10 billion stock repurchase program, and the drugmaker also increased its quarterly dividend, as it reaped the benefits of U.S. tax law changes. The Chicago-based...

AstraZeneca and Merck, known as MSD outside the U.S. and Canada, announced that the U.S. FDA has granted Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) for selumetinib, a MEK 1/2 inhibitor, for the treatment of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1). ...

The drug, verubecestat, was being tested in patients who showed only a glimmer of the symptoms that eventually rob them of memories and basic functions. It’s another setback in a long list of experimental treatments that have had little...

UK gene cell therapy designer Oxford BioMedica’s shares jumped  as much as 11.2% to 12.30 pence this morning after announcing a $100 million collaboration and licence agreement with US hemophilia specialist Bioverativ , which last month agreed to be...

You do not get severe dengue from the vaccine. Just because you were administered with the vaccine means you’ll get infected. That’s s a little misinformation,” said Dr. Ruby Dizon, Sanofi Pasteur medical director. “You get...

Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) today announced its once-daily oral Janus kinase 1 (JAK1) inhibitor PF-04965842 received Breakthrough Therapy designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of patients with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis (AD). ...

The world's largest pharmaceutical manufacturing plant is now 98,500 square feet larger.And that expansion -- the most visible part of an ongoing $147 million investment by Pfizer Inc. -- is a very good thing for Portage and Kalamazoo County,...