Tag: Health care industry
Eli Lilly taps Amazon Pharmacy to help deliver Zepbound, other drugs
Close-up of a hand holding a cellphone displaying the Amazon Pharmacy system, Lafayette, California, September 15, 2021. Smith Collection | Gado | Get [...]
Pfizer is betting big on cancer drugs after Covid decline
Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesPfizer is ready to move on from Covid. Now, the company is betting on cancer drugs to help it regain its footing aft [...]
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 headquarters in Indianapolis, Indiana, US, on Wednesday, May 3, 2023. Eli Lilly & Co.'s shares climbed in early US trading after its exp [...]
Cigna to cap insurance spending
Injection pens of Novo Nordisk's weight-loss drug Wegovy are shown in this photo illustration in Oslo, Norway, Nov. 21, 2023.Victoria Klesty | Reuters [...]
Medicare should negotiate prices for 50 drugs each year
President Joe Biden speaks during an event at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, Dec. 14, 2023.Chris Kleponis | Bloomberg | Gett [...]
Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic cuts risk of kidney disease progression
This picture taken on October 23, 2023, shows Ozempic medication boxes, an injectable antidiabetic drug, in a pharmacy in Riedisheim in eastern France [...]
Viking Therapeutics emerges as competitor
Cr | Istock | Getty ImagesBiotech company Viking Therapeutics has emerged as a strong potential entrant — or takeover target — in the budding weight l [...]
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 [...]
CVS, Walgreens to start selling abortion pill mifepristone this month
A container holding boxes of mifepristone, the first medication in a medical abortion, are prepared for patients at Alamo Women's Clinic in Carbondale [...]
Medicaid challenges leave many Black Americans uninsured
Recent changes to Medicaid programs, aimed at closing a health coverage gap in the U.S., have left behind some Americans — particularly people of colo [...]
Pfizer RSV vaccine protects older adults over two seasons
Respiratory syncytial virus vial.Manjurul | Istock | Getty ImagesPfizer's vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus maintained protection for older [...]
Novavax (NVAX) earnings report Q4 2023
Budrul Chukrut | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesVaccine maker Novavax on Wednesday reported fourth-quarter revenue and earnings that missed Wall Street's e [...]
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 [...]
Sickle cell disease gene therapies Casgevy Lyfgenia insurance cost issues
The approval of two gene therapies to treat sickle cell disease has given hope to patients who suffer from the debilitating disease, which overwhelmin [...]