
Hello, everyone, and how are you today? We are doing just fine, thank you, courtesy of a warm and shiny sun enveloping the Pharmalot campus. The short people have left for their destinations — the local schoolhouse and gainful employment, respectively — and the official mascots have settled in for another long round of comfortable snoozing. All of which is to say we can focus on the task ahead, which is foraging for interesting items. On that note, here are some tidbits to get you started. Hope you have a smashing and productive day …
Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY) disclosed that a combination of two of its cancer drugs — Opdivo and Yervoy — being tested as maintenance therapy did not meet the main goal of extending the lives of extensive-stage small cell lung cancer patients in a late-stage trial, Reuters writes. Earlier this year, the FDA extended the date by which it was expected to make an approval decision on an Opdivo-Yervoy combination to treat a different form of lung cancer, in order to review new data the company had submitted.