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Scott Gottlieb, former FDA commissioner, joins CNBC's 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss how the White House may plan to cut drug prices.

The consensus price target hints at a 27.9% upside potential for Astrazeneca (AZN). While empirical research shows that this sought-after metric is hardly effective, an upward trend in earnings estimate revisions could mean that the stock will witness an upside in the near term.

WILMINGTON, Del.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Positive high-level results from the POTOMAC Phase III trial showed one year of treatment with AstraZeneca's IMFINZI® (durvalumab) plus standard-of-care BCG induction and maintenance therapy demonstrated a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in disease-free survival (DFS) for patients with high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) compared to BCG induction and maintenance therapy alone. The trial was not statistically pow.

AstraZeneca PLC (LSE:AZN) has reported encouraging results from a late-stage trial of its cancer immunotherapy Imfinzi, which significantly extended the time patients with early-stage bladder cancer lived without their disease coming back or getting worse. The data, released Friday, come from the company's phase III POTOMAC trial and mark a potential breakthrough for patients with high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer, a form of the disease that accounts for the majority of bladder cancer diagnoses and has a stubborn tendency to return.

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Shares in AstraZeneca PLC (LSE:AZN) and GSK PLC (LSE:GSK, NYSE:GSK) on the back of an appointment by Donald Trump and his health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jnr of a key position at the US drug regulator.  Vinay Prasad, a vaccine sceptic like Kennedy, has been made head of the US Food and Drug Administration's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.

Investors looking for stocks in the Medical - Biomedical and Genetics sector might want to consider either Astrazeneca (AZN) or argenex SE (ARGX). But which of these two stocks offers value investors a better bang for their buck right now?

Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca on Friday said its inhaler therapy Breztri Aerosphere met all the main goals of two late-stage trials in patients with uncontrolled asthma.

AstraZeneca PLC (LSE:AZN) investors looking beyond the short-term noise of Medicare reform and currency headwinds may want to focus on a growing pipeline of clinical catalysts and a valuation that UBS believes underplays the company's longer-term potential. The bank retains its 'buy' rating with a price target of 14,200p, offering more than 30% upside from the current share price of around 10,600p.

AstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot discusses earnings, the potential trade tariff impact on the business and the outlook for the firm's key markets.