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Janssen quietly halts fulranumab program, returns rights to Amgen

April 4, 2016

In a six-sentence statement, Janssen Research & Development LLC, a unit of Johnson & Johnson (J&J), said it is halting the phase III development program for fulranumab in osteoarthritis (OA) pain.

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CTAD 2025: Diagnosing semaglutide’s failure in Alzheimer’s trials

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A little over a week after announcing that the Evoke and Evoke+ studies failed to show that oral semaglutide could slow cognition decline in patients with...

European Commission floats multiple fixes for MDR, IVDR

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The European Union’s struggles with regulations for devices and in vitro diagnostics seem virtually endless, but the European Commission floated a series of...

Left: Anthony Fauci. Right: Transmission electron micrograph of HIV-1 virus particles

HIV research is close to a cure but far from ending the pandemic

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Advances in antiretroviral therapy (ART) now allow people living with HIV to lead normal lives with undetectable and nontransmissible levels of the virus in their...