An injection pen of Zepbound, Eli Lilly’s weight loss drug, is displayed in New York City on Dec. 11, 2023.Brendan McDermid | ReutersEli Lilly on Friday said it is investing another $5.3 billion in a manufacturing plant in Lebanon, Indiana, to boost supply of its highly popular weight loss...
The CVS pharmacy logo is displayed on a sign above a CVS Health Corp. store in Las Vegas, Nevada on February 7, 2024.Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty ImagesPharmacy staff at two CVS retail stores in Rhode Island voted to join a new national pharmacy union on Friday,...
Cows are seen standing in a feedlot on June 14, 2023 in Quemado, Texas.Brandon Bell | Getty ImagesU.S. health officials are monitoring and preparing to combat bird flu in humans, even as they stress that the risk to the general public remains low. A strain of bird flu called H5N1...
Exterior view of the Pfizer headquarters building on January 29, 2023 in New York City. Kena Betancur | Corbis News | Getty ImagesPfizer on Wednesday said it has launched a new multi-year program to reduce costs as it works to rebound from the rapid decline of its Covid business. The announcement...
The Amgen headquarters in Thousand Oaks, California.Eric Thayer | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved Amgen's therapy for patients with the most deadly form of lung cancer. The agency cleared the drug, which will be marketed under the name Imdelltra, as a second or later...
A logo at the Roche Holding AG headquarters in Basel, Switzerland, on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024.Bloomberg | Getty ImagesRoche on Thursday said its experimental weight loss drug showed promising results in an early-stage trial, boosting the company's bid to compete in the booming market for those treatments.The Swiss company joined...
A person rides past a Walgreens truck, owned by the Walgreens Boots Alliance, in Manhattan, New York City, on Nov. 26, 2021.Andrew Kelly | ReutersWalgreens on Wednesday said it will offer its own cheaper version of the over-the-counter opioid overdose reversal spray naloxone. The drug is available online and...
Boxes of Wegovy made by Novo Nordisk are seen at a pharmacy in London, Britain March 8, 2024. Hollie Adams | ReutersPatients taking Novo Nordisk's obesity drug Wegovy maintained an average of 10% weight loss for up to four years, according to a new analysis published Tuesday from the longest...
A vial labelled "Novavax V COVID-19 Vaccine" is seen in this illustration taken January 16, 2022. Dado Ruvic | ReutersShares of Novavax jumped as much as 50% on Monday as Wall Street cheered the company's new multibillion-dollar deal with French drugmaker Sanofi that sparked a dramatic turnaround for the struggling...
A health worker prepares a dose of the Novavax vaccine as the Dutch Health Service Organization starts with the Novavax vaccination program on March 21, 2022 in The Hague, Netherlands.Patrick Van Katwijk | Getty ImagesNovavax on Friday said it has signed a multibillion-dollar deal with French drugmaker Sanofi to...