Pharmaceuticals

One key factor is that people only take antibiotics for a short period of time, just until an infection clears.

Prices for the top 20 drugs prescribed to seniors rose by an average of 12 percent every year from 2012 to 2017. Nothing about the medications changed, except their price tag.

Technically, sentencing guidelines would have allowed the court to order Shkreli to serve more than 27 years in prison.

An AI breakthrough could lead to a silver bullet for Alzheimer’s and offer a faster, cheaper way to find life-changing drugs.

Though gene therapies can be expensive on their own, they should only need to be administered once.

Shore crabs exposed to trace amounts of Prozac behaved in strange ways that could threaten the species.

Even after five years on the market, the promised benefits aren't showing up.

Intepirdine did not demonstrate improvements in cognition and functioning in patients with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's disease.

The use of nitroprusside and isoproterenol dropped by 53 percent and 35 percent over three years, as their prices skyrocketed by factors of ten.

When consumers take drugs, they become patients, not just customers. Amazon, due to its size and ability to quickly dominate markets, would make the situation a lot worse.

The high price of prescription drugs is an ever-increasing cause of concern in the United States. Here, an insider shares her knowledge of how the drug-pricing sausage gets made.

New research suggests depression is an "inflammation disease" of the brain.

A new report finds it takes an average of 10 months for the federal regulatory agency to sign off on sales of new pharmaceuticals.

The 120-patient trial showed patients taking Epidiolex achieved a median reduction in monthly convulsive seizures of 39 percent, statistically significant.

Millions in the U.S. don’t know they are suffering from a deadly liver disease; Big Pharma is eager to cash in.

While other drugs companies don’t raise their drug prices fiftyfold, they would if it led to fat profits.

A new analysis suggests government funding for studies is shrinking, forcing researchers to turn to the pharmaceutical industry to support essential research.

The merger will create the world's largest drugmaker.

Preliminary results from a phase 2 trial found the maintenance therapy may be even more effective at achieving viral suppression than three daily antiretroviral pills.

The investor who upped the price of an HIV drug was a silent investor in punk record label Collect Records

The investigation involves Retrophin, a public company where Shkreli served as an officer, director, and 10-percent owner.

A fractured regulatory system hampered by Big Pharma’s meddling has led to a growing global falsification market.

The new formulation should help those who have trouble swallowing large pills.

The settlement is the largest ever reached by the Federal Trade Commission.

With a price tag of $1,000 a day, most patients are unable to get treatment.