FDA approvals - December 2025
The winter batch of FDA approvals featured therapies that compress intervention into fewer doses, fewer visits, and fewer points of failure.
The winter batch of FDA approvals featured therapies that compress intervention into fewer doses, fewer visits, and fewer points of failure.
Mitochondrial disease and mutant leukemias signal where specialty pharma is placing its biggest bets.
With a median progression-free survival nearing four years in ROS1 lung cancer, Nuvation Bio’s breakthrough therapy signals a turning point for precision oncology - validating Dr. David Hung’s patient-first vision.
September’s FDA approvals signaled shifting rules in biopharma - faster launches, smarter formulations, and bold plays from rising innovators and the familiar giants.
“Fifteen to twenty years ago, a woman under 35 had a 20% chance of live birth per IVF cycle. At Kindbody, today, it’s greater than 50%,” David Stern credits lab innovation and AI for rewriting fertility’s odds.
“Preventative care spending fell from 14.1% to just 5.2% of Government healthcare spending.” Ben Phillips warns that welfare reforms could widen existing health gaps.
Anis Fahandej-Sadi breaks down the big problems with current incentive structures
All the details on when the 44th annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference takes place!
Industrial relations between doctors and the state have never been worse
Shashi Shankar explains how his app unifies patients' scattered medical records all together, and what that has to do with the 21st Century Cures Act.
"Think of us as a critical partner in the ecosystem, ensuring that brilliant innovation doesn’t get stuck in the development phase but actually reaches the patients who need them."
“Almost all of the data that we use comes from our own laboratories - data generation doing real experiments in human biology… The AI side of things will be commoditized eventually, and the winners will be those who have the strongest data moat in life sciences.”
We spoke with Stephen Gillett, Alphabet’s health-tech boss on life, leadership and AI.
Kendalle Burlin O’Connell tells us about the privilege of heading up MassBio - the organization that represents the extraordinary life sciences sector in Massachusetts.