Novo Nordisk in the NEWS Novo Nordisk (NVO) and Cardior Pharmaceuticals announced that Novo Nordisk agreed to acquire Cardior for up to 1.025 billion Euros, including an upfront payment and additional payments if certain development and commercial . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or here to log in.

Prohost Letter #458 ~ Obesity Finally, obesity is being recognized as a severe sickness. Indeed, obesity is several devastating diseases, which  include  cardiovascular diseases, high blood pressure, Type 2 diabetes, cancers, sleep apnea, breathing problems, and more.  Many studies demonstrated that effective treatments for the disease will treat all these sicknesses.  The good news is that we already have effective treatments. Part of the effective …

  Conquering NASH Gilead and Novo Nordisk Conquering NASH What was Gilead Sciences' (GILD) announcement at EASL? What is Gilead doing to find effective treatments for NASH? Why would Novo Nordisk's (

VERTEX From Europe, Vertex (VRTX) was informed that the European Commission has granted an extension of the Marketing Authorization for ORKAMBI® (lumacaftor/ivacaftor). Orkambi is for cystic fibrosis (CF) in people with two copies of the F508del mutation, including children ages 6 through 11 Reimbursement: In countries such as Ireland, reimbursement agreements will lead to rapid access to ORKAMBI. In other countries across the European Union, Vertex will begin a country-by-country reimbursement process. Clinical trial Results …

The Diagnosed Dead Is Far from Dying Xoma (XOMA): Stock rallied following report announcing an upfront payment from Novartis, which multiplied the firm’s revenues 10 times over 2014. Novartis paid Xoma $37 million, Novo Nordisk paid $5 million and Pfizer paid the firm a little less than $4 million. CEO John Varian said, “Novel antibodies and technologies created by XOMA scientists to target diseases such as …