JCR Gets Its Brain-Penetrating Hunter Therapy Out of Japan for the First Time, Through the UAE
IZCARGO, a therapy engineered to cross the blood-brain barrier, won its first marketing authorization outside Japan five years after launching there.
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Crysvita Reaches One-Month-Old Infants in the EU, and Buys Two More Years of Orphan Exclusivity
The European Commission approved Crysvita for infants as young as one month with XLH, a decision that also buys Kyowa Kirin two more years of orphan exclusivity.
Spain rewrites its drug-pricing rulebook, and the price of a generic will now fall as it sells more
Spain’s new draft Medicines Law will cut the price of generics and biosimilars automatically as their market share grows, replacing a system where prices froze after one initial discount.
A Father’s Liver, One Incision: the First Single-Port Robotic Liver Transplant Lands in a Six-Year-Old
A six-year-old with a rare genetic liver disorder became the first patient to receive a liver transplant through a single robotic incision, donated by his father.
Biotronik Is Quietly Assembling a Spinal-Cord-Stim Challenge to the Big Four
CI Neurology/Medtech/Neuromodulation Biotronik Is Quietly Assembling a Spinal-Cord-Stim Challenge to the Big Four Athithi Verma· 21 July 2026· 1 min read· Synopulse Biotronik Neuro launched Embrace One on 20 July, an AI capability for its Prospera spinal cord stimulation (SCS) system. It analyses more than 200 remote-monitoring data points per patient per day to flag … Read more
Tempus Buys Personalis for $1.5B to Own the MRD Layer It Already Sold
Deal Oncology/ Diagnostics/ MRD Tempus Buys Personalis for $1.5B to Own the MRD Layer It Already Sold Athithi Verma· 21 July 2026· 1 min read· Synopulse Tempus AI will acquire Personalis at $16.25 per share, a $1.5B enterprise value net of the stake Tempus already held. All-stock, with a cash option capped at 50 percent. … Read more
White House and London Clinch Drug-Pricing Deal With 25% UK Price Lift
The U.S. and U.K. have reached an agreement in principle that lifts U.K. net prices for new innovative medicines by 25 percent, caps VPAG repayments at 15 percent from 2026 onward, and exempts U.K.-origin pharmaceutical and medical goods from Section 232 tariffs.
Takeover Battle: Novo Nordisk Wins Brave Court Victory in $10B Metsera Deal Amid FTC Probe
Novo Nordisk’s $10 billion takeover for Metsera has survived a Delaware court challenge from Pfizer but now faces federal scrutiny from the FTC.
NextGen Gene Editing Breakthroughs Redefine Personalized Care
The New Frontier of Gene Editing: From Precision Tools to Personalized Therapies A new generation of programmable gene editing tools is pushing biotechnology toward an era of truly personalized medicine one in which therapies are tailored not only to specific diseases but to individual genetic profiles. As highlighted in a recent npj Biomedical Innovations feature … Read more