pharmaceuticals

A federal court cleared the way for the Sackler family, owners of Purdue Pharma, to settle thousands of claims over the toll of opiods, seemingly without the threat of civil lawsuits.

A diabetes drug being tested for weight loss is poised to further upend obesity care.

Eli Lilly said a higher dose of the up-and-coming Alzheimer’s treatment remternetug had a larger effect on clearing amyloid plaque.

Johnson & Johnson said it would pay an $8.9 billion settlement over claims that its talc-based baby powder caused cancer.

A divided Senate has voted to start debating Democrats’ election-year economic bill.

Martin Shkreli lost the civil case involving the drug Daraprim while serving a criminal sentence for unrelated securities fraud.

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla appeared on CNBC exactly two years after Covid was declared a pandemic by the WHO on March 11, 2020.

The world’s battle against Covid-19 has been largely sidelined as economies reopen and governments look to move beyond their “pandemic footing.”

[The stream is slated to start at 10:30 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is speaking to a group of European capital cities as Russia presses its invasion of his country. The speech comes as international outrage has grown over Russia’s shelling of Ukraine...

CVS Health looks to patent its stores as well as sales of virtual goods including prescription drugs, wellness, beauty and personal care products.

Indonesia hit a daily record high of more than 64,000 cases last week, superseding daily infections in the previous wave which peaked just under 57,000 in July.

Pfizer and BioNTech said they needed more data “because rates of infection and illness remain high in children of this age” due to the omicron variant.

[The stream is slated to start at 11:15 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is expected to drop the state’s strict indoor mask mandate as the surge in Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to fall in all regions. The health measure, which requires...

Actress, model, businesswoman and philanthropist, Elizabeth Hurley, told CNBC that the Covid-19 pandemic has been an “incredibly challenging” time for cancer patients.

Martin Shkreli raised the price of the prescription drug Daraprim by more than 4,000. He recently was banned for life from the pharmaceutical industry.

One tool was noticeably absent from the U.S.’s Covid-19 pandemic-fighting arsenal: at-home rapid tests. Despite their short supply, the Biden administration has made it clear that the tests will be critical when it comes to reopening the U.S. economy. The White House is taking a number of steps to bolster supply and lower costs for the over-the-counter tests. The...

Doctors have warned that vaccine hesitancy around Covid could be “creeping into” sentiment toward other vaccines.

Market volatility will lead cash-rich companies to be more opportunistic on mergers and acquisitions in 2022, including Johnson & Johnson, according to its CFO.

Calls to waive the patents on mRNA Covid vaccines have gained traction globally, but experts seriously doubt that they will ever come to be.

A huge new global study found that drug-resistant bacterial infections played a part in almost 5 million deaths in 2019.