{"id":14473,"date":"2026-07-12T19:35:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T19:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=14473"},"modified":"2026-07-12T19:35:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T19:35:51","slug":"astrazeneca-turns-to-china-for-molecule-that-might-top-new-merck-copd-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=14473","title":{"rendered":"AstraZeneca Turns to China for Molecule That Might Top New Merck COPD Drug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/07\/astrazeneca-copd-pde3-pde4-inhibitor-sino-biopharmaceutical-respiratory-disorder-azn\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AstraZeneca is getting rights to a Sino Biopharmaceutical drug that offers a dual mechanism to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD. It\u2019s the same approach as an FDA-approved drug that Merck acquired last year in a multi-billion dollar deal. <\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/07\/astrazeneca-copd-pde3-pde4-inhibitor-sino-biopharmaceutical-respiratory-disorder-azn\/\">AstraZeneca Turns to China for Molecule That Might Top New Merck COPD Drug<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/\">MedCity News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AstraZeneca is getting rights to a Sino Biopharmaceutical drug that offers a dual mechanism to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD. It\u2019s the same approach as an FDA-approved drug that Merck acquired last year in a multi-billion dollar deal. The post AstraZeneca Turns to China for Molecule That Might Top New Merck COPD Drug&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}