Charting the executive gender mix across 384 companies from mid-2014 to mid-2019 demonstrates that C-suite gender balance in pharma is moving towards a point that more closely reflects its total workforce, but that progress has been slow and that there is a long road to travel before the transformation is complete. 

With gender diversity only slowly increasing in biopharma c-suites, Scrip spoke to executives from five companies about the importance of change.

In a flat month, the market value of big pharma changed little overall. But the balance of power in immuno-oncology did shift significantly.

What does a good drug launch look like? Is pharma getting better at them? Which drugs are likely still to be in the top 20 in five years' time? Get the picture with Scrip's interactive infographic.

Investments of over $100 million are now close to becoming the predominant class of venture capital deployed in the life sciences. What is behind this shift in venture investing and how might it impact companies' strategy to attract the big bucks.

The story of the first quarter of 2018 is the impact of the general stock downturn at the end of January and the selective recovery that followed. But even though AbbVie and others had their own private yo-yos, the real correction took a while.