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Servier bags FDA okay for glioma drug from $2bn Agios buy

The FDA has approved Servier's vorasidenib for two forms of glioma, becoming the first targeted therapy for this aggressive and incurable form of brain cancer.

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Mallinckrodt sells Therakos unit on at a discount

Ireland-headquartered pharma group Mallinckrodt has agreed to divest its subsidiary Therakos to private equity firm CVC Capital Partners for $925 million, well below the $1.33 billion it pa

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Actinium's radioligand filing plans scuppered by FDA

Shares in Actinium Pharmaceuticals have lost almost two-thirds of their value after the FDA asked for a second clinical trial before it would consider reviewing the company's Iomab-B radiol

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Novartis, Viatris latest targets of Henrietta Lacks lawsuits

Novartis and Viatris have become the latest pharma companies to be named in lawsuits claiming that they profited from the unlawful use of HeLa cells derived from cells taken from a cancer p

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BMS ducks out of $1.56bn TIGIT alliance with Agenus

Bristol-Myers Squibb has handed back rights to a TIGIT drug partnered with Agenus, ending an alliance that could have been worth up to $1.56 billion to the biotech.

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