Prescription drugs are often priced higher in the U.S. than in other countries, but there is legislation that aims to cut costs.
| Scripps News Staff
Today’s weight loss drugs pull from the science of diabetes treatments. Those have been proven for years to have fewer and less serious side effects.
| Eli Kintisch
The retail giant’s RxPass has a prescription list that includes more than 50 common medications.
Researchers found that heart disease in women has been overlooked and women are less likely than men to be prescribed medication to treat it.
| Scripps News Staff
From mental wellness to a multitude of illnesses, the past year in health and medicine has been a roller-coaster ride.
Millions of Americans are struggling to get their hands on much-needed medication.
| Emily Grossberg and Lindsey Theis
University of Houston researchers say they've created a vaccine that appears to block synthetic fentanyl from entering the brain.
| Scripps News Staff and AP
The FDA's drug center has granted 10 accelerated approvals — fewer than the tally in each of the last five years.
| AP
Walmart's offer would have to be approved by 43 U.S. states by Dec. 15, and local governments could sign on by March 31, 2023.
| AP and Scripps News Staff
The tentative settlement will not be final until enough states and localities sign off on it.
| AP
A nationwide Adderall shortage is leaving patients with ADHD without medication or forcing them to switch to an alternative.
Families hope the money can help combat an epidemic some say is just getting worse, as fentanyl claims lives and targets younger generations.
Naltrexone is already FDA approved, but not as an implant. Options are being studied and if all goes well, one could be greenlighted in 2024.
Laws to ban abortions have had unintended consequences for patients with autoimmune diseases.
This trial was part of a broader constellation of about 3,000 federal opioid lawsuits.
| Bianca Facchinei and AP
Two drugmakers are working toward FDA approval for their over-the-counter birth control pills, but there are multiple steps in the process.
Paris-based HRA Pharma is seeking FDA approval for the first birth control pill available to women in the U.S. without a prescription.
| AP
At issue is so-called telemedicine abortion pills, which have been on the rise in the country since 2000 when the FDA approved mifepristone.
| AP
There are no approved male birth control pills on the market.
| Scripps News Staff and Lindsey Theis
mRNA-based medicine has been a decade in the making.
| Scripps News Staff
The drugmaker is recalling Accuretic and two other authorized generic versions.
| Scripps News Staff
Current trials are underway to use mRNA in fighting multiple different cancers.
The European Medicines Agency has recommended Paxlovid for high-risk adult patients who don't require supplemental oxygen.
| AP
The company aims to have a single annual booster shot that's available in some countries by fall 2023.
| AP
A recent mixup became nightmare for one couple when their fertilized embryo was swapped and inserted into the uterus of another patient.
Researchers found an affordable antidepressant can treat COVID-19 in the early stages.
| AP
The CDC reported 93,000 people died of a drug overdose in 2020 – the highest yearly total on record – and a majority of those deaths involved opioids.
A judge conditionally approved a settlement worth an estimated $10 billion.
| AP
Under the potentially $10 billion settlement, the Sackler family must give up company ownership and contribute $4.5 billion.
| AP
The chip is injected into the abdomen and slowly releases Naltrexone into a person's system.
| Scripps
Lawyers for local governments said that full details could be shared within days.
| AP
The FDA now says only people with mild memory or thinking problems should take the drug Aduhelm.
| Eliana Moreno and AP
The program pairs nurses and occupational therapists with seniors so they don't have to move into nursing homes.
| Scripps
The new medicine is made from living cells that will have to be given via infusion at a doctor's office or hospital.
| AP
