Biotech and Pharmaceuticals

Bill Ackman explains why he embraced RFK Jr.’s skepticism on Covid vaccines

Bill Ackman said in 2021 that delaying Covid vaccinations for older Americans “seems like genocide.” Today, the influential hedge fund…

Watch live: President Biden and India Prime Minister Modi speak at the White House

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Supreme Court says abortion pill mifepristone will remain broadly available during legal battle

The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the abortion pill mifepristone to remain broadly available as litigation plays out in a…

Big drug company CEOs to testify at Senate Health committee on insulin prices

The top executives of the three drug companies that control 90% of the global insulin market will testify May 10…

U.S. bankruptcy judge halts 40,000 Johnson & Johnson talc and cancer lawsuits

A federal bankruptcy judge on Thursday halted roughly 40,000 lawsuits that allege Johnson & Johnson‘s baby powder and other talc…

DOJ charges 18 people — including doctors — in massive Covid health-care fraud takedowns

Eighteen people, some of them doctors, were criminally charged with Covid-19 health-care fraud schemes that netted hundreds of millions of…

Supreme Court maintains full access to abortion pill mifepristone until at least Friday

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Wednesday issued an order allowing the abortion pill mifepristone to remain available by mail…

Texas mifepristone ruling threatens abortion access in states where procedure is legal, attorneys general say

Attorneys general for nearly half of U.S. states in a new court filing warn that a federal judge’s decision to…

Biden trumpets his economic plans in Minnesota after Cummins announces $1 billion investment

President Joe Biden touted efforts to boost U.S. manufacturing after touring a Cummins facility in Minnesota on Monday, as the…

Biden and Trudeau promote strength of democratic alliance on heels of Putin, Xi meeting

President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau aimed to show the strength of their democratic alliance during a…