Shapiro’s breezy account of Earhart’s early life includes a few new details, particularly about the aviator’s relationship with an early benefactor (Shapiro calls him Earhart’s “sugar daddy”) in California: a 63-year-old billboard magnate named Thomas Humphrey Bennett Varney. Varney wanted to marry her, but she ended up accepting the proposal of a young chemical engineer from Boston, Samuel Chapman. “Amelia …
Read More »Novartis Agrees to Buy Tourmaline Bio in $1.4 Billion-Dollar Deal The Wall Street Journal Novartis to acquire Tourmaline Bio, complementing cardiovascular pipeline with pacibekitug for the treatment of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) Novartis This Biopharma Stock Is Soaring 58%. Novartis Is Acquiring It. Barron’s Novartis to buy Tourmaline Bio, gaining promising heart medicine statnews.com Novartis spends $1.4B for Tourmaline and cardiovascular med that impressed …
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Tourmaline Bio is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing pacibekitug, an anti-IL-6 mAb, as a treatment option for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease Pacibekitug is a promising targeted therapy with the potential to reduce systemic inflammation—an independent and significant driver of cardiovascular risk—addressing a critical unmet need in ASCVD treatment Offer price of USD 48 per share valuing the company at approximately …
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“Not everything that is faced can be changed,” James Baldwin famously explained in 1962, “but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” At the time the late author, who is profiled in a new biography publishing Tuesday, had been talking of a writer’s responsibility to grapple with the real, gritty details of life, racial and structural inequities and all. …
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