Adding fluoride to water is considered one of the great public health achievements of the 20th century. With President-elect ...

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On Tuesday, a tiny shred of data on Amgen’s lead obesity candidate — not yet verified — erased $12 billion in market value.

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Johnson & Johnson has sued a U.S. government agency over a closely watched dispute focusing on payment methods for some ...

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In closing its therapeutics division and laying off 200 people, 23andMe ended an audacious bet it made nearly a decade ago — ...

For AbbVie, the failure of a high-profile schizophrenia drug hardly marks its last chance to invest in neuroscience. But the ...