Mid-Day Market Update: Dow Tumbles 200 Points; TherapeuticsMD Shares Jump U.S. stocks traded lower midway through trading, with the Dow Jones dropping around 200 points on Friday. Benzinga · May 20, 2022
38 Stocks Moving In Friday's Mid-Day Session Gainers Leju Holdings Limited (NYSE: LEJU) surged 27.8% to $4.0413. Benzinga · May 20, 2022
LPCN: OLE Results By John Vandermosten, CFA NASDAQ:LPCN READ THE FULL LPCN RESEARCH REPORT Benzinga · May 20, 2022
Cannabis Regulatory Update: FDA On CBD Reg Stalling, NY Issues 58 Cannabis Grow Licenses, LA's State Worker Protections FDA Chief Recognizes Slow Progress On CBD Regulations Dr. Robert M. Califf confirmed on Thursday at a congressional panel that the FDA has made little progress on the regulatory framework around CBD products over the years since Trump signed the Farm Bill in late 2018. Benzinga · May 20, 2022
Why TherapeuticsMD Shares Are Trading Higher Today TherapeuticsMD Inc (NASDAQ:TXMD) shares are trading higher after FDA approved the supplemental application, including minor revisions to Annovera's in vitro release testing specification that allowed for normal manufacturing variability. The FDA approved Annovera in August 2018 as the only long-lasting, reversible, procedure-free birth control. With the approval of the supplemental application, the company believes… Benzinga · May 20, 2022
Mid-Morning Market Update: Markets Open Higher; Deere Tops Q2 Views U.S. stocks traded higher this morning. Following the market opening Friday, the Dow traded up 0.20% to 31,316.89 while the NASDAQ rose 0.35% to 11,428.90. The S&P also rose, gaining, 0.34% to 3,914.24. Benzinga · May 20, 2022
Baby formula shortage shows risk of US industry concentration Formula isn’t just for babies. April Crohare desperately needs it for her 14-year-old son, Charlie. Due to medical complications from a rare brain disorder called lissencephaly, his only source of nutrition comes from infant formula through a feeding tube. Tribune News Service · May 20, 2022
The Daily Biotech Pulse: CDC Recommends COVID-19 Boosters For Kids 5-11, Foghorn's Blood Cancer Trial On Clinical Hold, Bayer Intends To Bow Out From CAR-T Therapy Pact With Atara Here's a roundup of top developments in the biotech space over the last 24 hours: Benzinga · May 20, 2022
CDC Recommends Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 Booster Shots For Kids Aged 5-11 Years The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that children ages 5 to 11 receive the newly authorized COVID-19 booster shot from Pfizer Inc (NYSE:PFE) and BioNTech SE (NASDAQ:BNTX). Following the recommendation, many of the nation's doctors, pharmacies, and other vaccination sites are expected to begin offering the extra doses to the 28 million U.S. children… Benzinga · May 20, 2022
Telehealth abortion demand is soaring. But access may come down to where you live Recent rule changes made it easier for patients to get abortion pills through the mail, using telehealth services. Now there is growing demand for these services – and new legal battles brewing. WEKU · May 20, 2022
FDA Places Clinical Hold On Foghorn Therapeutics' Early-Stage Blood Cancer Trial The FDA has instituted a clinical hold on Foghorn Therapeutics Inc's (NASDAQ:FHTX) Phase 1 dose-escalation study of FHD-286 in relapsed and/or refractory acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) and myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). The FDA initiated the partial clinical hold following the report of a recent death that occurred in a subject with potential differentiation syndrome. Differentiation… Benzinga · May 20, 2022
Baby formula crisis: Abbott enriched shareholders as factory needed repairs, records show Economists condemn ‘rot’ in system after manufacturer issued billions in stock buybacks despite problems at Michigan factory The Guardian - US · May 20, 2022
71 Biggest Movers From Yesterday Gainers NeuroMetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NURO) shares jumped 76.3% to close at $5.50 on Thursday after the company announced the FDA has granted De Novo authorization to market the Quell neuromodulation device as an aid for reducing the symptoms of fibromyalgia. Benzinga · May 20, 2022
Liberals are blaming Donald Trump for the baby formula shortage, but is that accurate? Reexamining a trade deal with bipartisan support The Independent UK · May 19, 2022
Benzinga · May 19, 2022 Markets Finish Lower Following Wednesday's Intense Sell-Off U.S. indices finished Thursday's trading session lower. Worse-than-expected retail earnings and anticipation of further Federal Reserve policy tightening in 2022 have continued to weigh on stocks across sectors.
Tribune News Service · May 19, 2022 Abbott baby formula factory could reopen by next week, FDA head says An Abbott baby formula plant in Michigan that’s been shut down since February could be up and running as early as next week, the head of the Food and Drug Administration told lawmakers Thursday.
Al Jazeera · May 19, 2022 US baby formula crisis: What you need to know Why is there an infant formula shortage in the US? Who is to blame? And when will parents see relief?
WEKU · May 19, 2022 FDA head says baby formula factory could reopen in the next week or two But Abbott has said that, after production resumes, it could take about two months before new formula begins arriving in stores. The company's factory has been closed due to contamination problems.
Benzinga · May 19, 2022 Pfizer, NIH Mulling Study For Longer Paxlovid Course To Combat Reinfections The U.S. National Institutes of Health and Pfizer Inc (NYSE:PFE) are discussing testing a longer course of COVID-19 antiviral treatment Paxlovid, required to prevent reinfections, White House Chief Medical Officer Anthony Fauci said. "We're going to be planning what studies we're going to be doing relatively soon, within the next few days," to…
Benzinga · May 19, 2022 Abbott's Troubled Baby Formula Michigan Plant To Reopen In 1-2 Weeks: Reuters Abbott Laboratories (NYSE:ABT) and the FDA are reportedly on track to reopen the company's Sturgis, Michigan, baby formula manufacturing plant within one or two weeks, FDA Commissioner Robert Califf said. Abbott, the biggest U.S. supplier of powder infant formula, including Similac, agreed with the FDA on the steps needed to resume production at…
Benzinga · May 19, 2022 Immunome Shares Rise After Publishing Positive COVID-19 Antibody Cocktail Data Immunome Inc (NASDAQ:IMNM) shares are trading higher after it published data demonstrating that its COVID-19 antibody cocktail, IMM-BCP-01, potently cleared the omicron variant (BA.1) when tested in vivo in hamsters. Additional in vitro testing of a SARS-CoV-2 pseudovirus showed that IMM20253, one of the antibodies in Immunome's cocktail, successfully neutralized the omicron subvariant…
Benzinga · May 19, 2022 Why SIGA Technologies Shares Are Trading Higher Today? The FDA approved the intravenous (IV) formulation of SIGA Technologies Inc's (NASDAQ:SIGA) TPOXX for smallpox. The oral formulation of TPOXX (tecovirimat) is approved in the US, Canada, and Europe to treat smallpox. The European approval also includes the treatment of monkeypox, cowpox, and complications from immunization with vaccinia. The IV formulation of TPOXX was…
Benzinga · May 19, 2022 Calliditas' Kinpeygo Receives CHMP Backing For Kidney Disease The European Medicines Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has adopted a positive opinion recommending conditional approval for Calliditas Therapeutics AB's (NASDAQ:CALT) Kinpeygo for primary immunoglobulin A (IgA) nephropathy (IgAN). The opinion covers adult patients at risk of rapid disease progression with a urine protein-to-creatinine ratio (UPCR) ≥1.5 g/gram. Also See: Calliditas…
Reason · May 19, 2022 Biden's Baby Formula Airlift Stunt Should Never Have Been Necessary Markets work if you let them. The Biden administration and Congress should remove supply restraints on baby formula that never made any sense in the first place.
ABC News · May 19, 2022 Why is there a baby formula shortage in America? The supply chain and contamination calamity that left parents scrambling With parents scrambling to track down baby formula and some families even contemplating home-brews, the US government is going to great lengths to solve the spiralling crisis.