Walgreens Shifts Into Recession Mode as Covid Boom Fades
Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. is bracing for a recession and life after Covid. The second-biggest U.S. drugstore chain by stores...
Pharmaceuticals
CVS, Walmart and Rite Aid Limit Purchases of Plan B Pills After Surge in Demand
Some of the nation’s biggest retailers are rationing over-the-counter emergency contraceptive pills as demand spikes following the Supreme Court ruling...
Pfizer’s Omicron-Targeting Covid-19 Vaccines Generate Stronger Immune Response
Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE vaccines modified to target the Omicron variant produced a significantly larger immune response than the...
Americans With ALS Look to Canada for Promising Drug the U.S. Hasn’t Approved
Canada approved Amylyx Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s new drug for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis last week. Now some U.S. patients with the fatal...
Supreme Court Declines to Hear Bayer Appeal on Roundup
The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a bid by Bayer AG to end thousands of lawsuits alleging its...
WSJ News Exclusive | Merck Explores Purchase of Biotech Seagen
Merck MRK -0.32% & Co. is eyeing a purchase of biotech Seagen Inc., SGEN 12.72% according to people familiar with...
FDA Advisers Review Pfizer, Moderna Covid-19 Vaccines in Young Children
A positive recommendation would likely lead soon to expanding the U.S. Covid-19 vaccination campaign to the 19.6 million children 6...
Three-Dose Pfizer Covid Vaccine Works Safely in Young Children, Review Says
The FDA staff also said, in a review of study data posted online Sunday, that there were no new safety...
The Billionaire Funding a Battle Against Hospital Monopolies
John Arnold antagonized public-employee unions and pharmaceutical firms with campaigns to reform government-funded pensions and bring down high drug prices....
Bristol-Myers to Buy Turning Point Therapeutics for $4.1 Billion
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. said it will acquire biotechnology company Turning Point Therapeutics Inc. TPTX 116.76% for $4.1 billion, an effort...
Baby Formula Shortage Worsens, Hitting Low-Income Families Hardest
New data suggest that the U.S. baby-formula shortage is deepening, particularly hitting states in the South and the Southwest. Nationally,...
FDA Eases Baby-Formula Import Rules to Boost Supplies
U.S. health regulators took steps to allow more foreign baby formula on American shelves, easing rules that had effectively prevented...
Baby Formula Shortage Faces Investigation by Lawmakers
WASHINGTON—The House Oversight Committee has launched an investigation into the four major manufacturers of baby formula, including the makers of...
Baby Formula Shortage Could Last Months
Baby-formula manufacturers and retailers say they are working to address a long-running shortage in products on store shelves, but the...
Moderna Ousts Finance Chief Jorge Gomez in First Week on the Job
On Monday, Jorge Gomez took the reins as the finance chief of the biotech success story Moderna Inc., MRNA -6.29%...
J&J Names Executives of Planned Tylenol, Band-Aid Company
The current head of Johnson & Johnson’s consumer-health division will helm the business after J&J turns it into a stand-alone...
Moderna Seeks to Dismiss Covid-19 Vaccine Patent Lawsuit
Moderna Inc. is trying to fend off rival companies’ claims that its Covid-19 vaccine infringes their patents, arguing that the...
FDA Limits Authorized Use of J&J’s Covid-19 Vaccine
The Food and Drug Administration limited the use of the Covid-19 vaccine from Johnson and Johnson after reviewing the risk...
Baby-Formula Shortage Prompts Rationing at Target, Kroger, Walgreens and CVS
The biggest U.S. retailers are rationing baby formula as a recall by the maker of Similac and other popular brands...
Biotech Stocks, Once Booming, Enter Bear Territory
Biotech companies are having one of their worst stock-market runs in years, as rising interest rates, scientific setbacks and a...
