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Pharma & Biotech

Lupin’s tentative FDA approval for enzalutamide sets up a high-value generic challenge to Xtandi

Lupin Limited has moved closer to the United States enzalutamide market with proposed 120 mg and 160 mg tablets that could reduce pill burden. Patent timing, final approval, market access and competition will determine whether that formulation advantage becomes commercially meaningful.

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Pharma & Biotech

Capricor faces an FDA panel for deramiocel, but has HOPE-3 truly resolved its Duchenne evidence gap?

Capricor Therapeutics has secured a July 29 FDA advisory committee meeting for deramiocel after a positive Phase 3 trial revived the previously rejected Duchenne muscular dystrophy application. The therapy now has controlled evidence of skeletal and cardiac benefit, but regulators must still weigh endpoint interpretation, long-term external comparisons, manufacturing reliability and whether the proposed label

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Medical Devices & Diagnostics

PorTal Access wins FDA clearance for FLEXI-PORT, but can a flexible chemo port change cancer care?

PorTal Access can begin commercialising its FLEXI-PORT implantable vascular access system for adults and children. Its flexible design, chest-or-arm placement options and smaller implantation profile could improve long-term infusion access, but clinical adoption will depend on complication data, hospital economics and proof that design changes produce meaningful patient benefits.

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Features & Analysis

Avacta secures single-trial FDA path for AVA6000, but can its low-FAP cancer signal survive a pivotal test?

Avacta Group PLC has agreed a potential full-approval pathway for faridoxorubicin with the United States Food and Drug Administration, while new clinical analyses suggest the drug may work even in tumours with very low FAP expression. The pivotal opportunity is becoming clearer, but Avacta still needs mature progression-free survival data, a development partner and evidence

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Medical Devices & Diagnostics

Aidoc’s AI can draft chest X-ray reports, but can radiologists safely trust the first read?

Aidoc has secured FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for First Read, an investigational artificial intelligence system designed to analyse chest radiographs and generate preliminary report text. The technology could reduce reporting pressure, but automation bias, missed findings and unclear liability remain significant barriers.

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Pharma & Biotech

FDA gives Replimune’s RP1 a third chance, but can it overcome the same melanoma evidence gap?

The FDA has accepted Replimune’s latest RP1 resubmission and set an August 2 decision date, reviving a melanoma programme rejected twice over trial-design and efficacy questions. A late-July advisory committee will determine whether durable responses can outweigh the absence of definitive controlled evidence.

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Medical Devices & Diagnostics

How UpDoc’s clinical AI could transform insulin management without replacing physicians

UpDoc is moving patient-facing artificial intelligence beyond reminders and administrative support into insulin management. Its narrow FDA clearance, physician-defined limits and early clinical evidence reveal both the potential and the boundaries of autonomous chronic-disease care.

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Features & Analysis

Can CalciMedica rescue Auxora after a mortality imbalance threatened its kidney injury trial?

CalciMedica has preserved the clinical future of Auxora after regulators reviewed safety data from the KOURAGE trial, but restarting development is only the beginning of a difficult scientific and financial recovery.

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Medical Devices & Diagnostics

Is CONNEQT Health building a scalable medical software platform or another funding cycle?

CONNEQT Health is seeking an FDA pathway for cloud-based arterial analytics, but regulatory execution, customer integration, cash burn and a heavily dilutive capital raise complicate the ASX micro-cap opportunity.

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Medical Devices & Diagnostics

PanopticAI adds FDA-cleared respiratory rate to its smartphone vital-signs platform

FDA clearance for contactless respiratory-rate measurement expands PanopticAI’s regulated digital-health platform, but restricted use, cloud dependence and uncertain reimbursement remain major commercial tests.

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