A sign hangs in front of the world headquarters of Vertex Pharmaceuticals in Boston on Oct. 23, 2019.Brian Snyder | ReutersShares of Vertex Pharmaceuticals jumped Wednesday after the company's painkiller, which is being tested as an alternative to opioids, significantly decreased pain in a midstage trial.Those positive results for...
Shares of Pfizer fell Wednesday after the drugmaker forecast 2024 revenue and profit below Wall Street's expectations, as it sees weak demand for its once-blockbuster Covid products. Pfizer also raised the target of its sweeping cost-cutting plan by $500 million, bringing the anticipated total to $4 billion.The company expects 2024...
Eli Lilly's drug tirzepatide was approved for weight loss by the FDA.Courtesy of Eli LillyPatients who took Eli Lilly's weight loss drug Zepbound regained around half the weight they shed after stopping the newly approved treatment for a year, according to data released Monday. The data, which represents the full...
Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesShares of Cigna jumped Monday following reports that the health-care giant has scrapped its plans to buy rival Humana due to disagreements on price, putting an early end to what would have been one of the largest deals of the decade.Cigna late Sunday...
President Joe Biden speaks about protecting Social Security, Medicare, and lowering prescription drug costs, during a visit to OB Johnson Park and Community Center, in Hallandale Beach, Florida, on Nov. 1, 2022.Kevin Lamarque | ReutersThe Biden administration on Thursday opened the door to seizing the patents of certain costly...
A sign stands outside a Abbvie facility in Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 20, 2021.Brian Snyder | ReutersAbbVie on Wednesday said it will acquire neuroscience drugmaker Cerevel Therapeutics for roughly $8.7 billion. Under the terms of the deal, AbbVie will pay $45 per share for Cerevel. AbbVie said it expects to complete...
FDA approves Eli Lilly's Zepbound, a weight loss drug similar to Ozempic and WegovyCourtesy: Eli LillyEli Lilly on Tuesday said its recently approved weight loss treatment Zepbound is now available at pharmacies across the U.S., serving as an alternative to rival obesity drugs such as Wegovy that are facing...
A sign outside a CVS Health store in Miami, Aug. 1, 2023.Joe Raedle | Getty ImagesCVS Health on Tuesday said it will revamp how it prices prescription drugs and scrap a complex model that typically sets how much pharmacies get reimbursed and what patients pay for those medications.The new...
Harun Ozalp | Anadolu | Getty ImagesThe free version of ChatGPT may provide inaccurate or incomplete responses — or no answer at all — to questions related to medications, which could potentially endanger patients who use OpenAI's viral chatbot, a new study released Tuesday suggests.Pharmacists at Long Island University...
Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesPfizer's twice-daily version of its experimental weight loss pill has now joined a long list of other scrapped drugs that aimed to treat obesity but came with unintended consequences. The drugmaker on Friday said it will stop developing the twice-daily treatment, danuglipron, after obese...