Analysts tracking consumer health product firms in the US anticipatevApril-June results lower than a year ago across most businesses. While some results will be lower on comparisons with strong growth in 2023, others will reflect a slow allergy season, retailers’ inventories remaining high as consumer spending slows or firms continuing to recover from supply chain problems.

Following a pair of $10bn+ deals in Q4 2023 and a $16.5bn takeout in Q1, the second quarter saw no acquisition priced as high as $5bn, Evaluate notes. Aggregate deal volume and values dropped from Q1.

The Japanese drug discovery bioventure builds on multiple alliances and an in-house platform to get away a successful IPO in Tokyo, which it will use to fund further pipeline and technology development.

Phase IIb data for Auxora in an acute pancreatitis subpopulation is expected to set up the CRAC channel inhibitor for Phase III in that indication while suggesting positive read-through for AKI.