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Three deaths in China shake trust in the country's speedy clinical trial system
2. Exclusive: PhRMA considers a grab-bag of Republican policy wonks, former lawmakers for CEO post
3. FDA rejects Osteal combo therapy to treat joint-implant infections
4. Using gray-market versions of Lilly’s triple-G leads to relatively poor weight loss, study finds
5. Ultragenyx's gene therapy gets FDA OK for glycogen storage disorder
6. Try first, evaluate later: How the FDA is approaching digital health devices
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Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer
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PhRMA has considered a handful of Republican lawmakers and leaders as part of its search for its next CEO, Max Bayer reports. I'll be curious to see what direction the next head of the trade group takes when longtime CEO Steve Ubl steps down at the end of the year.

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Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer
Deputy Editor, Endpoints News
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Endpoints In Focus
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by Ryan Cross

Chi­na’s cheap, fast and qui­et sys­tem for test­ing cut­ting-edge med­i­cines is fac­ing scruti­ny af­ter the deaths of three peo­ple in in­ves­ti­ga­tor-ini­ti­at­ed tri­als.

The stud­ies...

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by Max Bayer

More than four months in­to PhRMA’s search for a new CEO, the lob­by­ing group has con­sid­ered Re­pub­li­can can­di­dates with ex­pe­ri­ence span­ning decades on Capi­tol Hill...

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by Zachary Brennan

The FDA late last month re­ject­ed Os­teal Ther­a­peu­tic­s' lead com­bo ther­a­py that sought to more quick­ly fight the bac­te­ria or oth­er mi­croor­gan­isms that in­fect the...

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by Elizabeth Cairns

Eli Lil­ly’s triple ag­o­nist re­ta­tru­tide ap­pears to be the most ef­fec­tive obe­si­ty drug to have reached late-stage tri­als, with weight loss of up to 25%...

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by Ayisha Sharma

Ul­tragenyx has se­cured its first ap­proved gene ther­a­py, with the FDA clear­ing its as­set for an ul­tra-rare dis­ease that can cause life-threat­en­ing blood sug­ar crash­es...

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by Shelby Livingston

The FDA has been qui­et­ly se­lect­ing par­tic­i­pants for its TEM­PO pi­lot. A third, the be­hav­ioral health com­pa­ny Lim­bic, was just added to the pi­lot’s web­page, fol­low­ing re­mote...