STAT+: Lilly CSO defends hiring of ex-FDA chief Peter Marks

Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Morning, all. Today, we have more interesting tidbits from the STAT Summit: Eli Lilly’s CSO defends the company’s hiring of former FDA official Peter Marks, biotech CEOs warn that FDA turmoil is already affecting drug pipelines, and […]

The next frontier for animal-free dairy? ‘Slow-release’ mineral delivery, says Eden Brew

Melbourne-based precision fermentation startup Eden Brew—like many players in the emerging animal-free dairy space—has tweaked its strategy to focus on higher-value markets for its initial launch, with tech enabling it to “load” casein micelles with iron, magnesium and zinc. The firm, which had initially planned to make animal-free milk with dairy co-op Norco featuring its casein […]

Novo Shares Drop After Trump Promises “Much Lower” Ozempic Prices

Novo Shares Drop After Trump Promises “Much Lower” Ozempic Prices Novo Nordisk A/S shares in Copenhagen appear to be experiencing yet another dead cat bounce following last month’s surge. That’s because President Trump told reporters late Thursday that GLP-1 drugs like Novo’s Ozempic, which currently costs about $1,000 per month, could soon cost “$150 out of […]

Insulin-like peptide 5: a new key player in IBS with diarrhoea and bile acid malabsorption?

When considering the endocrine system, the GI tract is commonly overlooked, while it is in fact the largest endocrine organ in the human body. The GI tract lining comprises specialised enteroendocrine cells (EECs) which together produce over 20 bioactive peptide hormones.1 These are secreted in a spatial-temporal manner, generally in response to digestive cues. The […]

Trump says price of Ozempic will be lowered

US President Donald Trump made the comments during a White House event on fertility treatments and drug pricing. (AP pic) WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the price of Novo Nordisk’s best-selling weight-loss drug would be lowered and that negotiations over price changes would be swift. Trump made the comments during a […]