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1. ARPA-H bookmarks $160M for custom gene editing treatments. Is it enough?
2. Roche ends work on tominersen after decade of trials, as well as early-stage Huntington’s asset
3. HHS advances plan to pay out Covid-19 vaccine injury claims
4. FDA quietly stops releasing CRLs
5. UK price watchdog recommends against Amgen's Lumakras in lung cancer
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Max Bayer
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Remember back in April when a law firm, on behalf of an unnamed pharmaceutical company, filed a citizen petition asking the FDA to reform its public release of CRLs? Turns out that HHS took that complaint pretty seriously, temporarily pausing their release, Zachary Brennan reports.

Here's my question: What was the company? If you know, I'm all ears.

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Max Bayer
Senior Reporter, Endpoints News
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by Ryan Cross

Af­ter an in­fant last year was saved from a dead­ly dis­easethanks to a be­spoke gene edit­ing ther­a­py that fixed an in­cred­i­bly rare mu­ta­tion in...

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by Lei Lei Wu

Af­ter more than a decade of work and plen­ty of ups and downs, Roche has dropped its Hunt­ing­ton’s dis­ease drug tomin­ersen.

The de­ci­sion comes af­ter...

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HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA via AP Images)
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by Max Bayer

A new­ly pro­posed HHS rule would es­tab­lish a com­pen­sa­tion mech­a­nism for peo­ple who claim they were in­jured by Covid-19 vac­cines, as a key pan­el that...

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by Zachary Brennan

The FDA has paused its pub­lic re­lease of phar­ma re­jec­tion let­ters as the agency seeks to avoid lit­i­ga­tion around re­leas­ing the of­ten sen­si­tive in­for­ma­tion.

The...

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by Nicole DeFeudis

The UK’s drug pric­ing watch­dog said gov­ern­ment re­im­burse­ment of Am­gen’s lung can­cer drug Lumakras should be cut off for new pa­tients.

In draft guid­ance re­leased...

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