On Dec. 14, the Biden administration imposed penalties on the makers of 48 prescription drugs that saw price increases higher than inflation rates. 

More than half, or 65%, of the nation's 20 most commonly prescribed medications are in constrained supply. 

Martin Shkreli — the former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals who became infamous for hiking the price of a lifesaving drug by 4,000 percent overnight — has asked an appeals court to overturn an order that bars him from working in…

A quarter of the nation's current drug shortages are more than five years old, and a slight majority are at least two years old. 

Results from a phase 2 trial found a drug-vaccine combination developed by Merck and Moderna cut the risk of recurrence or death in patients with severe melanomas by 49%.

The Supreme Court decided Dec. 13 to review a decision from the Fifth Circuit on mifepristone. The outcome could limit access to the abortion drug.

In the first 11 months of 2023, poison control centers across the U.S. received nearly 3,000 calls involving semaglutide — a more than 15-fold increase since 2019, according to a Dec. 13 report from CNN. 

AstraZeneca has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Icosavax for $1.1 billion, the drugmaker said Dec. 12.

A congressional probe launched after the Supreme Court's decision in 2022 to overturn Roe v. Wade has found eight of the nation's largest pharmacy chains allow pharmacy staff to share customer records with police and government investigators without a warrant,…

Optum Rx is launching a new weight management and wellness support program for health plan sponsors, including employers, beginning Jan. 1.