The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved monthly maintenance dosing for Japan's Eisai and partner Biogen's Alzheimer's drug Leqembi, the companies said on Monday. The drug received standard U.

In a good-news-bad-news week for Biogen, the company will cut an undisclosed number of employees, just as a higher dose of its Ionis-partnered therapy Spinraza for spinal muscular atrophy will be considered by the FDA and EMA.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Biogen Inc. (NASDAQ:BIIB), a $20.8 billion biotechnology company with a robust 75.6% gross profit margin, has reached a pivotal phase as regulatory agencies in the United States and Europe are now reviewing a higher dose regimen of nusinersen,