Startup Korsana Bio Reveals $175M Raised for a Better Brain-Penetrating Alzheimer’s Drug

Korsana Biosciences’ preclinical Alzheimer’s disease drug comes from a platform technology that enables antibodies to cross the blood-brain barrier. Roche and AbbVie have clinical-stage drugs taking a similar approach to Alzheimer’s. The post Startup Korsana Bio Reveals $175M Raised for a Better Brain-Penetrating Alzheimer’s Drug appeared first on MedCity News.

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DEI Is Now a Four Letter Word

By KIM BELLARD I’d love to be writing about something fun. Something that makes us think about things in a new way, or something exciting that will take us into the future. There are lots of such things happening, but there’s too many Orwellian actions happening that I can’t be silent about. Diversity, we’re told,…

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Debunked Episode 15: How Did UnitedHealth Fail to Anticipate a Rise in Medical Utilization Costs?

United Healthcare’s shocking quarterly earnings miss, a new regular feature on the Trump administration’s healthcare moves, and the future of value-based care. That’s the focus of the latest episode of the Debunked podcast with MedCity News Editor-in-Chief Arundhati Parmar and Samir Batra, managing partner of Health Innovation Pitch. The post Debunked Episode 15: How Did…

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KFF Health News’ ‘What the Health?’: On Capitol Hill, RFK Defends Firings at CDC

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” A noted expert on health policy issues, Julie is the author of the critically praised reference book “Health Care Politics and Policy A…

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Kailera Secures $600M to Advance Dual-Targeting Obesity Drug to Global Phase 3 Tests

Bain Capital Private Equity led Kailera Therapeutics’ Series B financing, which will support global Phase 3 tests of KAI-9531, a weekly injectable drug that hits the same targets as Eli Lilly’s blockbuster obesity medication, Zepbound. The capital will also support development of other oral and injectable metabolic medicines in Kailera’s pipeline. The post Kailera Secures…

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