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1. TrumpRx adds more than 600 generic meds, building on one success in US pricing
2. Exclusive: Acceleron leaders and Westlake jumpstart new IPF biotech
3. Another Paragon offshoot chooses reverse merger, this time for migraine drugs
4. BioMarin's rare disease therapy shows no clinical benefit in Phase 3 test
5. Nourish raises $100M for virtual nutrition care
6. Q&A: Novo Nordisk research chief discusses streamlined R&D, asset integration and role of AI
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Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer
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In today's Health Tech newsletter, I had fun writing about some of the panels Endpoints News hosted at the Financial Times' US Pharma and Biotech Summit. In particular, it was fascinating to talk about the changing relationships consumers are having with healthcare — especially pharmaceutical products.

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Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer
Deputy Editor, Endpoints News
President Donald Trump with Mark Cuban and CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz on May 18, 2026 (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Images)
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by Max Bayer

The Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion is sig­nif­i­cant­ly build­ing the port­fo­lio of drugs avail­able through its di­rect-to-con­sumer plat­form TrumpRx, adding more than 600 gener­ic med­i­cines.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump...

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by Lei Lei Wu

Af­ter suc­cess with the drug Win­re­vair, a band of en­tre­pre­neurs has found their next chal­lenge in a dif­fi­cult-to-treat lung dis­ease.

On Tues­day, Oor­ja Bio launched...

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by Kyle LaHucik

They say stick to what you know. And Paragon Ther­a­peu­tics knows how to do re­verse merg­ers.

The hub-and-spoke bi­o­log­ics com­pa­ny is mov­ing its mi­graine drug...

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by Reynald Castaneda

Bio­Marin’s en­zyme re­place­ment ther­a­py for a rare ge­net­ic dis­or­der called ENPP1 de­fi­cien­cy de­liv­ered mixed re­sults in a late-stage study.

Pa­tients with the con­di­tion don't pro­duce...

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From L-R: Nourish co-founders Sam Perkins, Stephanie Liu and Aidan Dewar
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by Ngai Yeung

Nour­ish, a tele­health plat­form that arranges vir­tu­al ap­point­ments with nu­tri­tion­ists, just raised a new round that bumped its val­u­a­tion to $1.75 bil­lion, ac­cord­ing to a...

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by Elizabeth Cairns

Just as Maziar Mike Doust­dar took the helm at No­vo Nordisk in the sum­mer of 2025, the com­pa­ny said it would re­or­ga­nizeits R&D ac­tiv­i­ties...

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