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...
Nikos Pekiaridis | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesModerna on Friday said the Food and Drug Administration has delayed the approval of its vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus to the end of May due to "administrative constraints" at the agency.The FDA was expected to make a decision on the RSV shot...
The injectable weight-loss medication Wegovy is available at New City Halstead Pharmacy on April 24, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois.Scott Olson | Getty ImagesNovo Nordisk and Eli Lilly have long dominated the rapidly growing weight loss drug market, but their duopoly is closer than ever to facing a threat from...
Pavlo Gonchar | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesAmgen's stock rose more than 12% on Friday after the drugmaker teased positive initial data on its experimental weight loss injection. That fueled investor concerns about new competition in the rapidly growing weight loss drug industry, sending shares of the current obesity players, Novo...