Pfizer, Uber and Starbucks Highlight Another Busy Earnings Week
Pfizer Inc., PFE 3.69% Uber UBER -1.15% Technologies Inc. and Starbucks Corp. SBUX 2.13% are among the heavyweights headlining another...
Pharmaceuticals
Indonesia considers prosecutions over cough syrup suspected of links to child deaths | CNN
Indonesia’s food and drugs agency on Monday said it may pursue criminal action against two pharmaceutical firms that made products...
Biotech Co-Founder, Facing Murder-for-Hire Charges, Accused of Fabricating Data
Enochian BioSciences Inc. has sued co-founder Serhat Gumrukcu for contractual fraud, alleging that it paid him and his husband $25...
Drugmakers Look to Limit Medicare’s New Power to Negotiate Lower Drug Prices
Drugmakers are trying to blunt Medicare’s newfound power to negotiate medicine prices while coping with internal industry disputes and ebbing...
Indonesia bans sale of all cough syrups after 99 child deaths | CNN
Jakarta, Indonesia CNN — Indonesia has halted the sale of all syrup and liquid medicines following the deaths of nearly...
Abbott Names New Leadership at Troubled Baby-Formula Plant
Abbott Laboratories has made leadership changes at its major baby-formula manufacturing plant and in its quality organization, following a temporary...
Walgreens Quarterly Sales Fall on Fewer Prescriptions, Covid-19 Vaccinations
Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. WBA 5.35% said it is counting on its burgeoning healthcare business to fuel profit growth in...
Pfizer’s New Omicron-Targeting Booster Produces Strong Immune Response
The retooled Covid-19 booster from Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE generated a strong immune response against the Omicron substrains BA.4...
Bayer Hits Courtroom Winning Streak as It Battles Remaining Roundup Lawsuits
Bayer AG BAYRY 3.28% is on a winning streak as it battles the remaining cases targeting its Roundup weedkiller, a...
Walgreens Turns to Prescription-Filling Robots to Free Up Pharmacists
Walgreens WBA 1.56% Boots Alliance Inc. is turning to robots to ease workloads at drugstores as it grapples with a...
Amylyx Prices Newly Approved ALS Drug at $12,500 a Month
The drug, called Relyvrio, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration late Thursday after some staff had raised questions...
Alzheimer’s Drug Slows Disease Progression in Trial
The pharmaceutical companies said their drug lecanemab reduced cognitive and functional decline by 27%, compared with a placebo, over 18...
Biogen Agrees to Pay $900 Million Over Alleged Improper Physician Payments
Biogen Inc. agreed to pay $900 million to settle allegations that it paid kickbacks to doctors to induce them to...
Unilever CEO to Retire Next Year After Rocky Tenure
LONDON— Unilever UL 1.03% PLC said Chief Executive Officer Alan Jope plans to retire at the end of next year,...
Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout Carries Lessons for Pharma Supply Chains, Says Pfizer Executive
The concentrated effort to develop, manufacture and distribute vaccines as the Covid-19 pandemic began to rage across the world highlighted...
Abbott Faces Competition From Heart Valve Device Cleared by FDA
A new heart valve repair device from Edwards Lifesciences Corp. was as effective as the market-leading device from Abbott Laboratories...
Marijuana Retail Licenses in New York Are Going First to Those Convicted of Drug Crimes
New York regulators want people who were affected by marijuana criminalization to get the first licenses to sell recreational pot...
WSJ News Exclusive | DEA Investigating ADHD Telehealth Provider Done
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents have questioned people about telehealth company Done Global Inc.’s practices for prescribing controlled substances, according...
Covid-19 Booster Shots Targeting Omicron Authorized, Likely to Be Offered Soon
U.S. health regulators cleared use of retooled Covid-19 vaccines that target the latest versions of Omicron, in preparation for a...
U.K. Approves Covid-19 Booster Shot Aimed at Omicron
The U.K. became the first country to approve Moderna Inc.’s Omicron-targeting Covid-19 vaccine as a booster shot, paving the way...
