US biopharmaceutical firm Amgen said Monday it has reached agreement to acquire Horizon Therapeutics, which specializes in medicine for rare and auto-immune diseases, for $27.8 billion.
Dec 12, 2022
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For years, American cities and towns have struggled with how to address those living on their streets who suffer from mental illness but refuse treatment. New York City Mayor Eric Adams' controversial new plan to make it ...
Dec 9, 2022
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Just a few weeks after Elon Musk completed his chaotic buyout of Twitter, a phony account posing as pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly—with the Twitter handle @EliLillyandCo, a "verified" blue checkmark and the company logo—tweeted: ...
Dec 6, 2022
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For drugmaker Pfizer, a fortune amassed in the COVID pandemic is now paving the path to pharma nirvana: a weight loss pill worth billions.
Nov 9, 2022
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American drugmaker Pfizer is close to a deal to purchase Global Blood Therapeutics, which manufactures a recently approved drug against sickle-cell anemia, for $5 billion, the Wall Street Journal has reported.
Aug 7, 2022
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Fentanyl has been circulating the international illicit drug market since about 2013 and is responsible for approximately half of all overdose deaths in the U.S. So it was perhaps inevitable it would eventually cause problems ...
Jul 7, 2022
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The US drugstore chain CVS said on Monday that it had temporarily limited purchases of the morning-after pill to three boxes per transaction, in order to avoid a shortage following a recent US Supreme Court verdict that revoked ...
Jun 28, 2022
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US health authorities are expected to order Juul Labs to stop selling e-cigarettes in the world's biggest economy, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
Jun 22, 2022
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President Joe Biden's administration on Tuesday announced it would develop a new policy requiring cigarette producers to reduce nicotine to non-addictive levels—a move that would deal a powerful blow to the tobacco industry.
Jun 21, 2022
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Cognitive function at middle age is a strong predictor of whether a person may develop dementia later in life. Now, a new study led by a Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) researcher has found that increasing ...
Apr 27, 2022
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