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Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan says his company isn’t dealing in China because it’s trendy, but because the science there is real. Ayisha Sharma tuned in to the Swiss pharma's earnings call this morning. Read her coverage here.

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Karen Weintraub
Deputy Editor, Endpoints News
Vas Narasimhan, Novartis CEO (Chris J. Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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by Ayisha Sharma

No­var­tis is­n't mak­ing deals in Chi­na just for the sake of buy­ing there.

That's the word from CEO Vas Narasimhan, who told re­porters on a...

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by Max Gelman

The Broad In­sti­tute of MIT and Har­vard is team­ing up with Boston Chil­dren’s Hos­pi­tal and The Jack­son Lab­o­ra­to­ry to launch a new cen­ter fo­cused on...

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by Lei Lei Wu

Agios said it is drop­ping a next-gen­er­a­tion sick­le cell dis­ease drug af­ter lack­lus­ter re­sults from a mid-stage tri­al.

The drug, known as tebapi­vat, rep­re­sent­ed Agios’ sec­ond...

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Gilead and Mer­ck’s HIV da­ta: The duo will presentmore de­tailed re­sults of the Phase 3 tri­als of their once-week­ly oral HIV treat­ment reg­i­men at...