Health care industry

Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesShares of Cigna jumped Monday following reports that the health-care giant has scrapped its plans to buy rival Humana due to disagreements on price, putting an early end to what would have been one of…

President Joe Biden speaks about protecting Social Security, Medicare, and lowering prescription drug costs, during a visit to OB Johnson Park and Community Center, in Hallandale Beach, Florida, on Nov. 1, 2022.Kevin Lamarque | ReutersThe…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the country's first gene-editing treatment, Casgevy, for use in patients with sickle cell disease.The approval comes about a decade after the discovery of CRISPR technology for…

A person walks by a CVS pharmacy store in Manhattan, New York, U.S., November 15, 2021.Andrew Kelly | ReutersCVS Health on Tuesday said it will revamp how it prices prescription drugs and scrap a complex model that typically sets how much…

BRAZIL - 2021/11/26: In this photo illustration a F. HoffmannLa Roche AG logo is seen on a screen and a hand holding a pill. (Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty…

Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesPfizer's twice-daily version of its experimental weight loss pill has now joined a long list of other scrapped drugs that aimed to treat obesity but came with unintended consequences. The drugmaker on…

A 0.25 mg injection pen of Novo Nordisk's weight loss drug Wegovy is shown in this photo in Oslo, Norway, on Aug. 31, 2023.Victoria Klesty | ReutersNovo Nordisk on Thursday said it sued two compounding pharmacies in Florida for allegedly…

The blockbuster diabetes drug Mounjaro is more effective for weight loss than another highly popular diabetes treatment, Ozempic, in overweight or obese adults, according to a large analysis of real-world data published Monday.Patients…

Crowd gathers during China's Lunar New Year celebrations.Nurphoto | Getty ImagesChinese authorities reportedly called for vigilance Friday as a spike in respiratory illness continues to pile pressure on health care facilities in the north…

A microbiologist at the Max-Planck-Institute for Infection Biology prepares a bacterial colony of the strain Streptococcus pyogenes on a blood agar plate.Picture Alliance | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesAlready recognized as one of the…