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15 July, 2026
Manufacturing Day 2026
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1. Exclusive: FDA acting chief walks back Makary's practice of policymaking through journals
2. Senate committee questions CDC pick on political interference over vaccines
3. J&J restructures pharma manufacturing footprint at cost of up to $750M 
4. Eli Lilly invests in Oura to support patients on GLP-1 drugs
5. J&J's 'must-win launch' Icotyde nabs 18,000 prescriptions in first full quarter
6. Celcuity wins approval for breast cancer drug Revtorpyk
7. Veradermics declares first efficacy win in women for hair loss drug
8. Insilico, Bora Pharma reveal plans for AI-driven manufacturing company
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Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer
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The FTC settled its insulin lawsuit with CVS Caremark on Tuesday, following a similar settlement with Cigna's Express Scripts earlier this year. One thing I noticed was included in both settlements: Caremark and Express Scripts have now both agreed to count prescriptions paid for via TrumpRx toward deductibles. That's typically a big issue facing cash-pay pricing. (Though, the question still remains of how many people are using TrumpRx to buy their prescription drugs).

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Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer
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Acting FDA Commissioner Kyle Diamantas (Francis Chung/POLITICO via AP Images)
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by Max Bayer

The FDA is con­tin­u­ing to rewind ac­tions by for­mer Com­mis­sion­er Mar­ty Makary, say­ing that two med­ical jour­nal ar­ti­cles pub­lished over the last year did not...

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Erica Schwartz testifies during a Senate HELP committee confirmation hearing to be the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, July 15, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)
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by Nicole DeFeudis

Law­mak­ers in the Sen­ate pressed the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion’s nom­i­nee for CDC di­rec­tor on whether she will cave to po­lit­i­cal pres­sure dur­ing a con­fir­ma­tion hear­ing on...

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by Anna Brown

John­son & John­son is an­tic­i­pat­ing as much as $750 mil­lion in costs to re­struc­ture its phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal sup­ply chain and ex­it fac­to­ries, moves that are com­ing...

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by Ngai Yeung

Eli Lil­ly on Wednes­day made an eq­ui­ty in­vest­ment in wear­able ring start­up Oura as the drug­mak­er looks for ways to sup­port pa­tients tak­ing its GLP-1...

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by Max Gelman

John­son & John­son teased some de­tails on Wednes­day morn­ing about how the launch of its ex­pect­ed block­buster Ico­tyde per­formed in the sec­ond quar­ter.

With­out dis­clos­ing...

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by Nicole DeFeudis

A small pub­lic biotech won ap­proval for a breast can­cer drug that was de­signed to im­prove on sim­i­lar treat­ments from No­var­tis and Roche.

The FDA...