The Meals and Drug Administration (FDA) is launching a brand new program to ramp up the US’s home pharmaceutical provide chain, the company introduced Thursday.   This system, known as FDA PreCheck, is aimed toward streamlining the pharmaceutical plant regulatory course of. The FDA says this can in flip make it simpler to construct drug manufacturing websites throughout the U.S. FDA PreCheck would pace up the method in two phases. …

Eli Lilly’s experimental oral weight reduction tablet helped sufferers lose about 12 p.c of their physique weight on common in a late-stage trial, the corporate stated Thursday, constructive outcomes however nonetheless lower than its injectable opponents. Lilly’s inventory was down greater than 14 p.c on the day after the outcomes had been introduced. After 72 weeks, sufferers taking the best dose of the drug, known as orforglipron, misplaced a median …