Supreme Court

The Supreme Court Sends a Transgender Prison Case Back Down

The justices granted cert, vacated, and remanded Roybal v. Griffith in light of B.P.J. and Skrmetti, sending the 10th Circuit back to reconsider its standard for sex-based jail policies.

By Victoria C.·November 9, 2026·9 min read

Hepatitis

The First Hepatitis Delta Drug Has a Challenger

Vir's elebsiran and tobevibart posted a 44% combined response and 79% undetectable HDV RNA in Phase 3, challenging Gilead's recently approved Hepcludex.

By James T.·November 9, 2026·9 min read

Supreme Court

The Supreme Court Hears Two Cases About the Courthouse Door

The justices hear arguments in Nielsen v. Watanabe, which could end Bivens damages suits against federal officers, and Hoffmann v. WBI Energy, a pipeline condemnation fee dispute.

By Victoria C.·November 9, 2026·9 min read

Oncology

A Second-Line Bladder Cancer Drug Tries for the Front of the Line

ImmunityBio's ANKTIVA plus BCG met the primary endpoint in BCG-naïve non-muscle invasive bladder cancer, moving an approved second-line immunotherapy toward first-line use.

By James T.·November 9, 2026·9 min read

Pharmacy

CVS Splits Itself in Two, and the Market Asks What Comes Next

CVS Health will separate its 9,000 pharmacies from Aetna and its pharmacy benefit business, unwinding a $117 billion conglomerate. The market's reaction shows the hard details are missing.

By James T.·November 9, 2026·9 min read

Derivatives

Single-Stock Perpetuals Land in the U.S. With a Court Fight Attached

The CFTC let its review clock lapse, Kalshi listed more than 50 stock perpetuals, and a lawsuit now tests whether the products are futures or securities.

By Vasil V.·November 9, 2026·9 min read

Gene therapy

The Zolgensma Tumor Reports Test Gene Therapy's Safety Net

Nine tumor reports among more than 6,000 Zolgensma patients, two with confirmed vector integration at the GLI1 oncogene, have turned a theoretical label warning into a test of gene therapy's long-term follow-up.

By James T.·November 7, 2026·9 min read

Mortgage rules

Ten States Ask a Judge Not to Wait for the Supreme Court

Ten states told an Oregon federal court that three Supreme Court petitions will not answer whether the OCC's escrow rules are lawful, and that a pause would let banks stop paying interest on escrow balances now.

By Vasil V.·October 28, 2026·8 min read

Consumer protection

Nine Companies Have 45 Days to Explain Their Prices

The FTC ordered Walmart, Target, Uber and six other companies to show how personal data sets individual prices and gig pay, opening a record that could outlast next week's election.

By Vasil V.·October 28, 2026·8 min read

Intent Data

Intent Data Providers For B2B

Non-English intent signal is still under twenty percent of total volume industrywide, which means most platforms are seeing a fraction of the buying activity happening outside English language markets.

By Marko P.·8 min read

Knowledge Management

Knowledge Management Solutions

One vendor is explicitly competing on restraint, arguing that a plausible AI generated article that is subtly wrong is worse for a knowledge base than no article at all.

By Marko P.·8 min read

MDR

Managed Detection And Response Services

Forrester's own buyer guidance undercuts the AI pitch: providers are getting measurably more efficient, and there is little evidence yet that any of that efficiency is reaching customer pricing.

By Marko P.·8 min read

MDR Europe

Managed Detection And Response Services In Europe

Forrester's guidance to buyers is blunt: having a data centre in the EU answers one sovereignty question out of four, and most vendor pitches stop at the first.

By Marko P.·8 min read

Manufacturing Tech

Manufacturing Technology Services

Forrester frames 2026's binding constraint as a workforce that cannot be trained fast enough, which makes this a services category built around people more than platforms.

By Marko P.·8 min read

Market Intelligence

Market And Competitive Intelligence Platforms

Forrester's Q3 2026 Wave scores ten providers against twenty nine criteria, cutting the field's criteria count for the first time, while a vendor that owns its content finishes last equal.

By Marko P.·10 min read

Open Banking

Open Banking Intermediaries

Two of the category's most prominent independent players are now owned by the card networks they were supposed to route around.

By Marko P.·8 min read

Change Management

Organizational Change Management Services

Forrester's provider count nearly doubled in three years, and every other technology category in this series points at the same root cause: the software works and the organisation does not change.

By Marko P.·8 min read

PLM

Product Lifecycle Management Platforms For Discrete Manufacturers

Every reference customer for one vendor said they would buy again, which in PLM can mean genuine excellence or a customer base that has nowhere else to go once the evidence chain is built.

By Marko P.·8 min read