How a Drug Company Made $114 Billion by Gaming the U.S. Patent System

AbbVie for years delayed competition for its blockbuster drug Humira, at the expense of patients and taxpayers. The monopoly is about to end.

Why Experts Are Urging Swifter Treatment for Children With Obesity

Growing research has shown that intensive interventions are needed, scientists say. Here is why their advice is changing.

Start-Up Paradigm Raises $200 Million to Speed Up Drug Trials

New York-based Paradigm has raised a significant amount to simplify clinical trials. Its goal is ambitious, but its challenges are many, researchers say.

Covid Vaccines Targeting Omicron Should Be Standard, Panel Says

As advisers to the Food and Drug Administration endorsed ending one era of the Covid vaccination campaign, they also grappled with its future.

Rostro Ozempic: los efectos de los fármacos para perder peso en la cara

Las personas que usan medicamentos como Ozempic están encontrando un efecto secundario no deseado: envejecimiento facial.

A Farmer Secretly Paid for His Neighbors’ Prescriptions for Years

Hody Childress brought cash every month to a pharmacist in Alabama, asking her to use it to help people buy medicine. The town learned of the arrangement only after his death.

New Lawsuit Challenges State Bans on Abortion Pills

The case, brought by GenBioPro, a company that makes one of two abortion drugs, argues that it is unconstitutional for a state to bar access to a medication approved by the federal government.

Those Weight Loss Drugs May Do a Number on Your Face

People using drugs like Ozempic are discovering an unwanted side affect: facial aging.

Those Weight Loss Drugs May Do a Number on Your Face

People using drugs like Ozempic are discovering an unwanted side affect: facial aging.

A Dilemma for Governments: How to Pay for Million-Dollar Therapies

A wave of transformative but hugely expensive treatments is challenging the budgets of health systems in wealthy nations. Now countries with far fewer resources are wrestling with how to cover the therapies.