A mom was overjoyed when she learned a drug could save her baby's life. Then she learned it cost $2 million.

A mom was overjoyed when she learned a gene therapy treatment could save her child's life, until she found out no one would ...

Sanofi flags second delay to FDA decision on multiple sclerosis drug, shares fall

Shares of French pharmaceutical group Sanofi fell 4% on Monday after it flagged another delay to a U.S. regulatory decision ...

AstraZeneca, Daiichi's breast cancer drug gets FDA nod as first-line treatment

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Daiichi Sankyo's therapy in combination with Roche's drug for the ...
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Sanofi’s MS Drug Fails Phase III Trial, While FDA Again Delays Approval Application

Sanofi’s multiple sclerosis hopeful tolebrutinib faced dual setbacks on Monday, with a late-stage failure in one form of the ...

A Powerful New Drug Is Creating a ‘Withdrawal Crisis’ in Philadelphia

Medetomidine, a veterinary sedative mixed into fentanyl, has sent thousands to hospitals, not only for overdose but for life-threatening withdrawal. It is spreading to other cities.

UK approves GSK's twice-yearly asthma drug

UK's health regulator on Monday approved GSK's twice-yearly drug for use as an add-on treatment for asthma in patients aged ...

Why a budding drug-price revolution isn’t quite what it seems

As Adam Fein of Drug Channels Institute puts it, these forces are finally puncturing the “ gross-to-net bubble ”—the vast gap ...

37 indicted in Northeast Ohio drug ring, more than 6 kilograms of drugs seized

The Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley announced that the Cuyahoga County grand jury returned an indictment of 37 ...
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FDA approves first new gonorrhea drug in decades

The drug is from a new class of antibiotics, the first new class in decades to be approved as a treatment for gonorrhea, ...

Will U.S. military strikes slow drug overdose deaths? Experts say no

President Trump says U.S. strikes on supposed drug-smuggling boats will save Americans from overdose deaths. But most experts ...

Insurance denied an $800,000 drug twice. A state-run outside panel helped a North Carolina teen get it.

A little-known provision in the Affordable Care Act allows patients to ask state-run panels to review decisions made by ...
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A record Medicare drug payout, and the JPM dodgers

The Medicare prescription drug plan market appears to be under a lot of stress. And taxpayers are forking over record amounts ...