This summary presents current health and legal developments including wildfire smoke health risks, Kroger's opioid settlement ...

Kroger settles an opioid lawsuit in Kentucky for $110 million. The U.S. builds a bird flu vaccine stockpile. Shanghai permits ...

Popular Eli Lilly weight-loss drug Zepbound can be covered by Medicare plans to treat sleep apnea after it received Food and ...

Political and economic uncertainty hangs over the industry, while major bets on metabolic and immune disease drug research are set to play out.

The government-funded insurance plan will now pay for the drug for patients with obstructive sleep apnea, a condition that ...

Zepbound is not covered by Medicare or many other insurance plans as a treatment for weight loss. The injectable treatment ...

Top Medicare Part D drugs without price negotiations have seen a 98% increase in list prices since their launch. Read more ...

The number of layoffs in the U.S. pharmaceutical industry exceeded 14,000 last year, a 9% increase from 2023 ...

Eli Lilly's popular obesity drug Zepbound can now be covered by government-backed Medicare drug plans, CNBC reported on ...

Medicare now covers Eli Lilly's Zepbound for obstructive sleep apnea, FDA-approved for obesity and sleep apnea treatment, ...

When the BIOSECURE Act hit a setback and missed the chance of becoming law in 2024, the deceleration of the draft legislation ...