Acer's bank reserves have dwindled down to next to nothing following the failure of its menopause drug, osanetant, in a Phase II trial some six months ago. Enter Zevra, which is getting hold of the company and its just-launched urea cycle disorder drug, Olpruva, in what looks like a bargain.

Bristol and Regeneron sign separate cell therapy technology pacts, plus deals involving Takeda/ImmunoGen, Serina/AgeX, Cybin/Small Pharma, Taiho/Phost’in, Royalty/Ferring and Aardvark/GRI Bio.

Scrip delves into some of India’s critical compliance and quality challenges and efforts to address those. 

This week, Abbott announced a class I recall of several glucose management systems. Additionally, Medtronic announced partnerships with DaVita and Qure.Ai; Heartflow closed a funding round; and BiVacor readies for artificial heart trials.