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      <title>CMS to Bridge coverage for obesity drugs as BALANCE teeters</title>
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        <![CDATA[When the U.S. CMS didn’t get takers for its voluntary Better Approaches to Lifestyle and Nutrition for Comprehensive Health (BALANCE) model to cover obesity drugs under Medicare Part D, the agency punted. It announced late April 21 that it will indefinitely delay the BALANCE model in Medicare but extend its temporary Medicare GLP-1 Bridge demonstration model through the end of 2027. (The Medicaid BALANCE model will still kick in this year in states that choose to participate in it.)]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/730497</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Med-tech financings steady at $8.8B in Q1, despite volume drop</title>
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        <![CDATA[Total med-tech financings reached $8.81 billion in the first quarter (Q1) 2026, a 6% decline from $9.33 billion in Q1 2025 but well above the post-downturn lows of recent years. ]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Targeted therapies dominate March’s five NME approvals</title>
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        <![CDATA[U.S. FDA drug approvals totaled 19 in March 2026, matching February and showing a solid level of regulatory activity, though slightly below the 22 approvals recorded in March 2025 and under the spike of 30 seen in March 2024.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/730472</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[The quest by psychedelic drugs for full legitimacy in the pharmaceutical world has seen marked progress as well as (fewer) setbacks of late, and developers are hopeful that an important corner has been turned.]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Biggest gainers and losers for April 13-17, 2026</title>
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        <![CDATA[The top 10 biopharma stock gainers and losers for the week.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/730474</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Biopharma money raised: Jan. 1-April 16, 2026</title>
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        <![CDATA[Year-to-date money raised in public, private and other financings of biopharma companies.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/730511</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Money raised by biopharma</title>
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        <![CDATA[Total raised in public, private and other financings of biopharma companies, comparing 2019-2026.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/730510</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Med-tech financings steady at $8.8B in Q1, despite volume drop</title>
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        <![CDATA[Total med-tech financings reached $8.81 billion in the first quarter (Q1) 2026, a 6% decline from $9.33 billion in Q1 2025 but well above the post-downturn lows of recent years. The 2026 total exceeds $6.45 billion in Q1 2024 and $4.69 billion in Q1 2023, indicating continued recovery from the weaker funding environment that followed the 2021 peak. While still below the $16.59 billion recorded in Q1 2019 and the pandemic-era highs, the data suggest that financing activity has stabilized at a higher baseline, with 2026 maintaining momentum despite a slight year-over-year pullback.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/730396</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Flow of Trump EOs slowing way down </title>
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        <![CDATA[Despite key vacancies, ongoing staffing challenges and policy issues at the U.S. CDC, FDA and NIH, some of the regulatory churn that roiled those agencies in the first year of the second Trump administration is settling a bit, at least in terms of the number of executive orders (EOs) coming out of the Oval Office.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/730314</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>In the mix post-Ventyx, more NLRP3s to seize?  </title>
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        <![CDATA[Eli Lilly and Co.’s buyout of Ventyx Biosciences Inc. for $1.2 billion at the start of the year brought to the forefront NLR family pyrin domain containing 3 (NLRP3) inhibitors, on which a handful of developers have been working – and research in the space continues to roll out, as with the paper published March 26 in <em>Nature</em> that delved into mechanisms that rev up the NLRP3 inflammasome.]]>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Abbott’s Exact acquisition drives med-tech M&amp;A to $23.7B in March</title>
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        <![CDATA[Med-tech M&A activity surged in March 2026, with deal value reaching $23.66 billion, the highest monthly total since June 2022’s $36.27 billion and a sharp increase from $17.53 billion in February and $1.69 billion in January.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/730312</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Revolution Medicines’ $1.5B follow-on highest to date </title>
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        <![CDATA[In what shakes out to be the largest follow-on stock offering in biopharma history, Revolution Medicines Inc., an oncology company that was the subject of buyout rumors earlier this year, priced 10.56 million shares to raise $1.5 billion just two days after wowing investors with top-line phase III data of its RAS inhibitor daraxonrasib in patients with metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/730308</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.bioworld.com/articles/730308-revolution-medicines-15b-follow-on-highest-to-date</link>
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      <title>Biologics in development outnumber small molecules for the first time</title>
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        <![CDATA[More than four decades on from the approval of the first biologic drug, the industry has reached a tipping point, and biotech drugs now outnumber small molecules in the global R&D pipeline.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/730418</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.bioworld.com/articles/730418-biologics-in-development-outnumber-small-molecules-for-the-first-time</link>
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      <title>Biopharma deal value gains 17% in early 2026</title>
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        <![CDATA[Biopharma deal value totaled $18.05 billion in March 2026, a pullback from $30.01 billion recorded in February and $31.16 billion in January, but broadly in line with prior years. The March total exceeds March 2024 ($8.5 billion) and is comparable to March 2023 ($19.68 billion) and 2022 ($15.35 billion). For the first quarter (Q1) 2026, deal value increased 17% year over year to $79.22 billion, up from $67.6 billion in Q1 2025.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/730417</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.bioworld.com/articles/730417-biopharma-deal-value-gains-17-in-early-2026</link>
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      <title> Biopharma deal value gains 17% in early 2026</title>
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        <![CDATA[Biopharma deal value totaled $18.05 billion in March 2026, a pullback from $30.01 billion recorded in February and $31.16 billion in January, but broadly in line with prior years. The March total exceeds March 2024 ($8.5 billion) and is comparable to March 2023 ($19.68 billion) and 2022 ($15.35 billion). For the first quarter (Q1) 2026, deal value increased 17% year over year to $79.22 billion, up from $67.6 billion in Q1 2025.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/730283</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.bioworld.com/articles/730283-biopharma-deal-value-gains-17-in-early-2026</link>
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      <title>Lipid reading: Street not deaf to ACC data</title>
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        <![CDATA[Abstracts released ahead of the American College of Cardiology meeting held in late March in New Orleans, along with the start of dosing near the end of January in Novartis AG’s phase IIb trial with siRNA therapy DII-235, also known as BW-20829, perked up the already-lively lipids/heart space.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/730223</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.bioworld.com/articles/730223-lipid-reading-street-not-deaf-to-acc-data</link>
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      <title>Biggest gainers and losers for April 6-10, 2026</title>
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        <![CDATA[The top 10 biopharma stock gainers and losers for the week.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/730286</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.bioworld.com/articles/730286-biggest-gainers-and-losers-for-april-6-10-2026</link>
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      <title>Biopharma money raised: Jan. 1-April 9, 2026</title>
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        <![CDATA[Year-to-date money raised in public, private and other financings of biopharma companies.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/730324</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.bioworld.com/articles/730324-biopharma-money-raised-jan-1-april-9-2026</link>
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      <title>Money raised by biopharma</title>
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        <![CDATA[Total raised in public, private and other financings of biopharma companies, comparing 2019-2026.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/730323</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Biologics in development outnumber small molecules for the first time</title>
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        <![CDATA[More than four decades on from the approval of the first biologic drug, the industry has reached a tipping point, and biotech drugs now outnumber small molecules in the global R&D pipeline. At the start of the biotech industry, progress was slow. Between 1983 and 1995, the U.S. FDA approved an average of two biologics each year. Now, biologics have taken the lead by the smallest of margins, accounting for 50.1% of drugs in development at the start of 2026, according to the <em>Pharma Annual Review 2026</em>, published by Pharmaprojects, a firm that tracks global pharma R&D.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/730343</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.bioworld.com/articles/730343-biologics-in-development-outnumber-small-molecules-for-the-first-time</link>
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        <![CDATA[More than four decades on from the approval of the first biologic drug, the industry has reached a tipping point, and biotech drugs now outnumber small molecules in the global R&D pipeline.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/730211</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.bioworld.com/articles/730211-biologics-in-development-outnumber-small-molecules-for-the-first-time</link>
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      <title>IPO market strengthens in Q1 2026 as biopharma financings reach $22.82B</title>
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        <![CDATA[Total biopharma financings reached $22.82 billion in the first quarter (Q1) 2026, rising about 74% from $13.12 billion in Q1 2025 but declining 31% from $33.16 billion in Q4 2025. The strong start places 2026 well above the subdued levels seen from 2022 through 2025, though is still below the highs of $38.35 billion in Q1 2021 and $47.25 billion in Q1 2024. Overall, the data indicate a meaningful rebound in financing activity to begin 2026, following a more uneven 2025.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/730210</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.bioworld.com/articles/730210-ipo-market-strengthens-in-q1-2026-as-biopharma-financings-reach-2282b</link>
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      <title>Pediatric PRVs top the voucher popularity contest</title>
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        <![CDATA[With three rare pediatric disease priority review vouchers (RPD PRVs) awarded just since the end of March, the nearly year-and-a-half lapse in the program’s reauthorization seems to have had little short-term impact. The three new vouchers bring the total RPD PRVs granted so far this year to seven – one more than the agency issued all last year and down two from the nine given in 2024.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/730209</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.bioworld.com/articles/730209-pediatric-prvs-top-the-voucher-popularity-contest</link>
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      <title>Merck Wnt first, Surrozen goes next in AMD, DME </title>
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        <![CDATA[As advances are made by bustling drug developers at work in the Wingless-related integration site (Wnt) pathway, other research is yielding new discoveries as well. Among the closely watched industry players in Wnt are Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH, Merck & Co. Inc., and Surrozen Inc.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/730150</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.bioworld.com/articles/730150-merck-wnt-first-surrozen-goes-next-in-amd-dme</link>
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      <title>VC activity drives March med-tech financings to $2.4B</title>
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        <![CDATA[Total med-tech financings reached $8.54 billion in the first quarter (Q1) of 2026, reflecting a modest pullback from $9.33 billion in the same period of 2025 but remaining well above previous years. The Q1 2026 total exceeds the $6.45 billion recorded in Q1 2024 and $4.69 billion in Q1 2023, signaling continued recovery from the post-2021 downturn.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/730138</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.bioworld.com/articles/730138-vc-activity-drives-march-med-tech-financings-to-24b</link>
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      <title>Kennedy sidestepping court order sidelining ACIP?</title>
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        <![CDATA[Don’t like a court order? Sidestep it. That seems to be the idea behind U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy’s latest changes to his renewal of the charter for the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/730135</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.bioworld.com/articles/730135-kennedy-sidestepping-court-order-sidelining-acip</link>
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      <title>Sector tariff now more than a threat – for some Rx companies</title>
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        <![CDATA[After nearly a year of threats and promises of a global biopharma tariff of 25% to 500%, U.S. President Donald Trump finally delivered it. In the name of national security, he imposed a 100% sector tariff on prescription drugs and their associated ingredients beginning in about four months for large manufacturers and six months for smaller companies. ]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/730236</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.bioworld.com/articles/730236-sector-tariff-now-more-than-a-threat-for-some-rx-companies</link>
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      <title>Biopharma financings nearly double vs. 2025 to $25.1B</title>
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        <![CDATA[Total biopharma financings reached $25.14 billion in the first quarter (Q1) of 2026, nearly doubling the $13.12 billion in the Q1 2025. The early 2026 total comes in above the $13.19 billion recorded in 2023 and $13.66 billion in 2022, though it remains below the $38.27 billion during the same period in 2021 and $47.25 billion in 2024.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/730235</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.bioworld.com/articles/730235-biopharma-financings-nearly-double-vs-2025-to-251b</link>
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        <![CDATA[Total biopharma financings reached $25.14 billion in the first quarter (Q1) of 2026, nearly doubling the $13.12 billion in the Q1 2025. The early 2026 total comes in above the $13.19 billion recorded in 2023 and $13.66 billion in 2022, though it remains below the $38.27 billion during the same period in 2021 and $47.25 billion in 2024.]]>
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        <![CDATA[Do state laws requiring drug companies to give steep 340B drug discounts to an unlimited number of contract pharmacies, with no claims data required, interfere with a longstanding contract between the U.S. Congress and biopharma? Or do such laws merely flex states’ authority over pharmacy practices such as delivery?]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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