More states are passing or considering family medical leave laws that would require employers to offer paid leave for workers to undergo treatment or care for a sick family member
Dr. Mehmet Oz is promising to fight health care fraud and push to make Americans healthier if he becomes the next leader of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Supplies of high-demand obesity treatments are improving, but that doesn’t mean they're easier to get
UnitedHealth Group shares tumbled Friday on a report that the U.S. Department of Justice has started an investigation into the health care giant’s Medicare billing practices
CVS Health’s adjusted fourth-quarter profit handily beat Wall Street’s estimates, even as the drugstore chain and pharmacy benefits manager dealt with rising costs in its insurance division
GeneDx is targeting a big market for its genetic testing: every newborn baby
Eli Lilly’s profit doubled in the fourth quarter, propelled by its hot-selling diabetes and obesity treatments, and the drugmaker debuted a mostly better-than-expected 2025 forecast
Shares of Merck are sliding in early trading after the drugmaker surprised Wall Street with a lower-than-expected 2025 sales forecast due partly to a pause in shipments of one of its top-selling products to China
Many Americans with high-deductible health insurance face a cold reality at the start of every year: Those deductibles will have to be paid before most insurance coverage starts
Walgreens shares sank Friday, a day after the drugstore chain said it was suspending its dividend, breaking a streak of quarterly shareholder payouts that stretches back more than 90 years
Johnson & Johnson is signing off on a new logo, more than 130 years after creating the old one
Supply problems and insurance complications have made it difficult for many patients to start and stay on new prescription medications used to treat obesity
The Biden administration is moving to make it easier for caregivers to take in family members in the foster care system, requiring states to provide them with the same financial support that any other foster home would receive
Customers may need a dose of patience at U.S. pharmacy counters as those businesses start their busiest season
Open enrollment for Medicare opens Sunday, and seniors could have dozens of options to choose from
Rite Aid has filed for bankruptcy and plans to sell part of its business as it attempts to restructure while dealing with losses and opioid-related lawsuits
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
Amazon will soon make prescription drugs fall from the sky when the e-commerce giant becomes the latest company to test drone deliveries
Drugstore employees around the country have started calling in sick to highlight a lack of support from their employers
Pfizer lost more than $2 billion in the third quarter as an expected COVID-19 product sales decline clipped revenue
The time to shop for health insurance on the Affordable Care Act’s coverage marketplaces is back
A New York woman who died Sunday from cancer has raised enough money to erase million of dollars in medical debt with a posthumous plea for help
AbbVie is spending more than $10 billion to add a potential blockbuster cancer treatment as cheaper versions of the drugmaker’s all-time best seller, Humira, cut into sales
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
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
Canada says China and India may seek to meddle in election
FBI says it is probing 'increase in violent activity toward Tesla'
U.S. government sees Columbia's first steps on protests as promising
Top Trump officials mistakenly divulged military plans to journalist
Cubans lament end of American dream as Trump overhauls migration policy
Trump widens trade war as he targets Venezuela's energy sector, eyes sectoral tariffs soon
What is Musk's DOGE, the secretive unit operating in the public eye?
U.S. loses 2-1 game to Canada to place fourth at CONCACAF Nations League
You're an American in another land? Prepare to talk about the why and how of Trump 2.0
Former NFL and college assistant coach pleads not guilty to hacking for women's images
