Alexion Pharmaceuticals said Wednesday that senior management pressured staff to get customers to order its flagship drug earlier than needed to meet financial targets.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is investing as much as $140 million to support development of a tiny implantable drug pump it believes could help prevent people in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere from becoming infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
Health-care diagnostics company Alere is taking steps to get Medicare billing privileges reinstated for its Arriva Medical LLC diabetes unit, challenging the actions of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Seattle Genetics Inc. said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had placed several of its early-stage cancer drug trials on hold after four patients died during treatment.
President Barack Obama, in an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, condemned the Republican plan to repeal and later replace his signature health law, calling it a reckless strategy that will jeopardize access to health care for tens of millions of Americans.
MD Anderson Cancer Center said it would cut 800 to 900 jobs, or about 5% of its workforce, as the globally renowned Texas hospital struggles with financial losses.
One company’s managers think repeal would raise its health-care costs by hundreds of millions.
The Republican-controlled Senate took its first step toward dismantling the 2010 Affordable Care Act, introducing legislation that sets an aggressive timeline for repealing and reworking much of President Barack Obama’s signature health law.
U.S. stocks climbed in a volatile session Tuesday, their first trading day of 2017.
Even as overall U.S. economic data has lately improved, individual Americans face major challenges.
President Barack Obama will head to Capitol Hill next week to meet with congressional Democrats over ways to protect his signature health-care law, which Republicans are pledging to dismantle as one of their first acts in the new Congress.
The Puerto Rico teen wanted to become a doctor. She got pregnant, contracted the fearsome virus and spent eight months not knowing if her unborn would suffer its ravages.
After decades of trying to push into healthier foods, Nestlé is elevating a new chief executive—plucked straight from the health-care industry—to kick its effort into higher gear.
Colombia’s number of confirmed cases of Zika-linked microcephaly is expected to rise sharply in coming months, due in part to the country’s cautious approach to diagnosing the virus.
About 6.4 million Americans signed up for health insurance coverage beginning Jan. 1 on healthcare.gov through the extended Dec. 19 open-enrollment deadline, a jump in enrollments.
The Canadian government failed to reach a deal on health care funding during a meeting with regional health and finance ministers on Monday, as rising costs continue to squeeze the country’s single-payer system.
U.S. hospitals are taking aggressive steps to cut pharmaceutical spending. They include minimizing inventories and repackaging costly intravenous medicines into individual doses.
President Barack Obama said the website selling coverage under his signature health law had seen its busiest day ever on Thursday, with 670,000 people using HealthCare.gov to renew or obtain health plans ahead of a year in which Republicans have pledged to begin dismantling the law.
Enough with tweaks; time to be bold.
General Electric is promoting more women to leadership roles from nontraditional assignments, using information technology, health care, marketing and other rotations instead of a historical preference for engineering and industrial duties.