Walgreens is finalizing a plan to fix its business that could result in the closure of hundreds of additional stores in the next three years
June 27, 2024
Erin Fox has tracked drug shortages for more than 20 years, and she sees no easy solutions for what has become a record run
June 17, 2024
Rapidly climbing sales of the new obesity drug Zepbound and its counterpart for diabetes, Mounjaro, pushed Eli Lilly to a better-than-expected first quarter profit
April 30, 2024
UnitedHealth Group trounced first-quarter expectations even as costs from a cyberattack to its Change Healthcare business ate into its performance
April 16, 2024
Shares of Humana are tumbling after the health insurer said it was still dealing with higher-than-expected care costs from its Medicare Advantage customers and it chopped earnings expectations
January 18, 2024
Pfizer lost more than $2 billion in the third quarter as an expected COVID-19 product sales decline clipped revenue
October 31, 2023
Pfizer turned in a better-than-expected fourth quarter, boosted by products outside the drugmaker’s slumping COVID-19 vaccine and treatment
January 30, 2024
UnitedHealth Group turned in a better-than-expected fourth quarter but surprised Wall Street with medical costs that soared 16%
January 12, 2024
Pfizer’s forecast for sales of its COVID-19 vaccine and treatment next year falls more than $5 billion short of the Wall Street consensus
December 13, 2023
The Biden administration is pushing to prevent medical debt from being considered in most decisions made over whether someone qualifies to rent an apartment, buy a car or take on a mortgage
June 11, 2024
Health care delivery experts say patients in the U.S. need more help dealing with a system that is growing increasingly complex
May 31, 2024
Eli Lilly will spend more than $5 billion to expand an Indiana manufacturing site and eventually make more doses of its hot-selling weight-loss and diabetes treatments, Zepbound and Mounjaro
May 24, 2024
CVS Health missed first-quarter expectations and chopped its 2024 outlook more than a dollar below Wall Street’s forecast
May 01, 2024
The first drug shown to slow Alzheimer’s hit the U.S. market over a year ago, but sales have lagged and diagnosis and treatment remain complicated
April 12, 2024
Doctors around the country say insurers are making it harder to get coverage for home ventilators that patients with serious illnesses need as their lungs fail
March 08, 2024
Drugstore chains CVS Health and Walgreens plan to start dispensing the abortion pill mifepristone in a few states
March 01, 2024
Eli Lilly rode soaring demand for diabetes and weight-loss treatments to a better-than-expected finish in 2023, and the drugmaker expects momentum to carry into the new year
February 06, 2024
Telemedicine’s early days of handling mostly mild illnesses like sinus infections or cases of pink eye are fading fast
February 05, 2024
Humana surprised Wall Street again on Thursday with a lower-than-expected earnings forecast, as insurers that sell Medicare Advantage plans continue to struggle with rising care costs
January 25, 2024
Walgreens is chopping its dividend nearly in half as the drugstore chain looks to strengthen its balance sheet
January 04, 2024
Online, direct-to-consumer health care has grown well beyond its roots mostly treating hair loss and acne or selling birth control pills
December 26, 2023
Pfizer shares sank Friday when the drugmaker announced that it was abandoning a twice-daily obesity treatment after more than half the patients in a clinical trial stopped taking it
December 01, 2023
The time to shop for health insurance on the Affordable Care Act’s coverage marketplaces is back
November 01, 2023
Drugstore employees around the country have started calling in sick to highlight a lack of support from their employers
October 30, 2023
Rite Aid’s plan to close more stores as part of its bankruptcy process raises concern about how that might hurt access to medicine and care
October 17, 2023
