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Only about one-third of employers cover GLP-1s to treat obesity, leaving many patients facing prohibitively high drug costs on their own.

In some cases, paying more upfront can reduce emergency care and hospital bills later. A life-saving allergy injector helps explain the economics.

The U.S. will import less and our exports will likely also suffer because of retaliatory tariffs from other countries.

It replaced a decongestant that’s a precursor to methamphetamine.

Prescription drug prices have been rising over the past few years.

Bristol-Myers Squibb announced Thursday that it’s going to acquire another drugmaker, Celgene. The deal is worth about $74 billion. The combined company will have nine products with sales of more than a billion dollars a year, including some blockbuster cancer drugs. The merger is a sign that Big Pharma is betting big on cancer medications. […]

The trade agreement reached over the weekend between the U.S., Canada and Mexico includes longer intellectual property protection periods for the expensive class of drugs known as biologics.

Pfizer hopes to run with its “little blue pill” as long as it can. That includes the time-honored strategy of launching its own generic.

Will this be the catalyst for big pharmaceutical companies to get into the pot business?