Soda sweetener aspartame may cause cancer but safe within limits
A can of Diet Coke in a supermarket, as an artificial sweetener commonly used in thousands of products including diet fizzy drinks, ice cream and chewing gum is to be …
Biotechnology
Uninsured pay high prices for Eli Lilly product, Warren says
An Eli Lilly and Company pharmaceutical manufacturing plant is pictured at 50 ImClone Drive in Branchburg, New Jersey, March 5, 2021. Mike Segar | Reuters Uninsured Americans pay nearly $98 …
Biden HHS to provide free Covid vaccines for uninsured through 2024
A healthcare worker prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic in the Peabody Institute Library in Peabody, Massachusetts, on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022. Vanessa Leroy …
Updated Covid vaccines should have ‘reasonable’ prices: HHS
A nurse prepares doses of the Pfizer vaccine on Dec. 30, 2021, during a COVID-19 vaccination event at Josephine’s Southern Cooking in Chatham, Illinois. Brian Cassella | Tribune News Service …
3 health-care stocks are in the news. How the news impacts our stocks
A trio of the Club’s health-care stocks made news Thursday: Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) nabbed some positive research ahead of its earnings report next week, another Wall Street analyst expressed …
AI-generated drug begins clinical trials in human patients
Alex Zhavoronkov, left, founder and CEO of Insilico Medicine, and Feng Ren, co-CEO and chief scientific officer, at the company’s robotics lab in Suzhou, China. Source: Insilico Medicine The first …
FDA approves first over the counter birth control pill
HRA Pharma expects a final decision by the FDA this summer on its application for nonprescription sales of Opill, which is generically called norgestrel. Source: Perrigo The Food and Drug …
Stop taking Ozempic, Wegovy before surgery: Doctors
In this photo illustration, a box of the diabetes drug Ozempic rests on a pharmacy counter on April 17, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images People …
Medicare will allow pharma firms to discuss drug price negotiations
Hundreds of 1199SEIU health care workers staged a rally and sit to block 3rd avenue where some were arrested. They protested against health care cuts in Governor Kathy Hochuls budget …
Moderna strikes deal to develop mRNA drugs in China
Nikos Pekiaridis | Nurphoto | Getty Images Moderna on Wednesday said it struck a deal with Chinese officials to research, develop and manufacture messenger RNA medicines in the country, despite …