At a highly charged April 25 meeting of the FDA's Peripheral and Central Nervous System (PCNS) Advisory Committee, which concluded with angry shouting from parents and patient advocates, a majority of panelists said Sarepta Therapeutics Inc. failed to provide sufficient efficacy data for its Duchenne muscular dystrophy drug eteplirsen to win US approval – accelerated or standard, although the votes were much closer on the former than on the latter question.

With new funding in hand, Moderna and its infectious disease venture Valera are going full-speed ahead with a Zika vaccine, taking an mRNA approach, which they said could be a more rapid strategy to try to stop the disease.

Allergan CEO Brent Saunders vows not to engage in price gouging and says his firm will limit cost increases to single-digit percentages, occurring only once per year. But it's unclear whether Saunders will stand as a lone wolf in the industry or if others will make similar pledges.