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FDA approves Merck drug sotatercept for rare, deadly lung condition

FDA approves Merck drug sotatercept for rare, deadly lung condition

The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved a drug from Merck designed to treat a progressive and life-threatening lung condition in a win fo [...]
Altimmune weight loss drug minimized muscle mass loss in trial

Altimmune weight loss drug minimized muscle mass loss in trial

Altimmune on Wednesday said its experimental drug helped patients shed weight but also minimized the loss of muscle mass in a midstage trial, a findin [...]
Amgen aims to enter weight loss drug market with a new approach

Amgen aims to enter weight loss drug market with a new approach

The Amgen logo is displayed outside Amgen headquarters on May 17, 2023 in Thousand Oaks, California.Mario Tama | Getty ImagesAmgen is taking a new app [...]
FDA approves NASH liver disease drug from Madrigal Pharmaceuticals

FDA approves NASH liver disease drug from Madrigal Pharmaceuticals

In this photo illustration, the Madrigal Pharmaceuticals logo is displayed on a smartphone screen. Rafael Henrique | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty [...]
Overdose or Poisoning? A New Debate Over What to Call a Drug Death.

Overdose or Poisoning? A New Debate Over What to Call a Drug Death.

Grieving families want official records and popular discourse to move away from reflexive use of “overdose,” which they believe blames victims for the [...]
Weight loss pill could become a best-in-class drug

Weight loss pill could become a best-in-class drug

Novo Nordisk CEO Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen on Friday said the company's experimental weight loss pill, amycretin, could eventually become a best-in-cl [...]
Eli Lilly Alzheimer’s drug FDA approval delayed

Eli Lilly Alzheimer’s drug FDA approval delayed

Eli Lilly headquarters in Indianapolis, Indiana, US, on Wednesday, May 3, 2023. Eli Lilly & Co.'s shares climbed in early US trading after its exp [...]
Medicare drug price negotiations: Judge rejects AstraZeneca challenge

Medicare drug price negotiations: Judge rejects AstraZeneca challenge

Activists protest the price of prescription drug costs in front of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services building in Washington, D.C., on O [...]
Viking Therapeutics weight loss drug shows promising trial results

Viking Therapeutics weight loss drug shows promising trial results

Cr | Istock | Getty ImagesShares of Viking Therapeutics soared about 80% on Tuesday after the company's experimental weight loss drug showed promising [...]
Varda drug spacecraft gets FAA approval to return

Varda drug spacecraft gets FAA approval to return

Varda's first manufacturing satellite and reentry vehicle attached to a Rocket Lab Photon bus.Rocket LabSpace startup Varda received long-awaited appr [...]
FTC, HHS examining cause of generic drug shortages

FTC, HHS examining cause of generic drug shortages

A variety of generic pills and capsules. Nenov | Moment | Getty ImagesThe Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday said it is examining the role that dr [...]
Medicare drug price negotiations: Judge tosses PhRMA lawsuit

Medicare drug price negotiations: Judge tosses PhRMA lawsuit

Activists protest the price of prescription drug costs in front of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) building on October 06, 2022 [...]
Merck, J&J, Bristol Myers Squibb CEOs face Senate drug price hearing

Merck, J&J, Bristol Myers Squibb CEOs face Senate drug price hearing

(L-R) Joaquin Duato, CEO of Johnson & Johnson, Robert Davis, CEO of Merck, and Chris Boerner, CEO of Bristol Myers Squibb, testify before the Sena [...]
J&J, Merck and Bristol Myers Squibb CEOs Will Testify at Senate Hearing on Drug Prices

J&J, Merck and Bristol Myers Squibb CEOs Will Testify at Senate Hearing on Drug Prices

The top executives of three major companies are set to appear on Thursday before a Senate panel led by Mr. Sanders, who has made lowering drug costs a [...]
Eli Lilly weight loss drug may treat fatty liver disease

Eli Lilly weight loss drug may treat fatty liver disease

An injection pen of Zepbound, Eli Lilly’s weight loss drug, is displayed in New York City, U.S., December 11, 2023. Brendan McDermid | ReutersEli Lill [...]
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