The Amgen logo is displayed outside Amgen headquarters in Thousand Oaks, California, on May 17, 2023.Mario Tama | Getty ImagesAmgen on Thursday said it will stop developing its experimental weight loss pill and instead move forward with its injectable drug and other products in development for obesity.The announcement is...
Moderna on Thursday posted a narrower-than-expected loss for the first quarter as the company's cost-cutting efforts took hold and sales of its Covid vaccine, its only commercially available product, topped estimates. The results come as Moderna inches closer to putting another product on the market, which it badly needs as...
Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesPfizer on Wednesday reported first-quarter revenue that beat expectations and hiked its full-year profit outlook, benefiting from its broad cost-cutting program, a smaller-than-feared drop in sales of its Covid antiviral pill Paxlovid and strong non-Covid product sales.The company now expects to book adjusted...
CVS Health on Wednesday reported first-quarter revenue and adjusted earnings that missed expectations and slashed its full-year profit outlook, citing higher medical costs that are dogging the U.S. insurance industry.Shares of the company dropped 10% in premarket trading.The drugstore chain expects 2024 adjusted earnings of at least $7 per...
Johnson & Johnson on Wednesday said it will pay $6.5 billion to settle nearly all of the thousands of lawsuits in the U.S. claiming its talc-based products caused ovarian cancer.The deal would allow J&J to resolve the lawsuits through a third bankruptcy filing of a subsidiary company, LTL Management. More...
A box of Ozempic and contents sit on a table in Dudley, North Tyneside, Britain, October 31, 2023. Lee Smith | ReutersThe Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday said it is challenging hundreds of alleged "junk" patents held by pharmaceutical companies for 20 brand-name drugs, including Novo Nordisk's blockbuster drugs Ozempic,...
Eli Lilly logo is shown on one of the company's offices in San Diego, California, U.S., September 17, 2020. Mike Blake | ReutersEli Lilly on Tuesday reported first-quarter adjusted profit that topped Wall Street's expectations and hiked its full-year guidance on strong sales of its blockbuster diabetes drug Mounjaro and...
Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesA federal judge in New Jersey on Monday rejected Johnson & Johnson's and Bristol Myers Squibb's legal challenges to the Biden administration's Medicare drug-price negotiations, ruling that the program is constitutional. The decision is another win for the White House in a bitter legal...
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 ImagesA CVS in Las Vegas has become the first location to join a new national pharmacy union, a milestone as...
Pavlo Gonchar | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesThe Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved Pfizer's treatment for a rare genetic bleeding disorder, making it the company's first-ever gene therapy to win clearance in the U.S. The agency greenlit the drug, which will be marketed as Beqvez, for adults with moderate...