NEWS A jury in California has ordered Bayer to pay more $2 billion to a couple who developed cancer after using Roundup, its glyphosate-based weedkiller. Bayer […]

NEWS More than 40 US states have filed a lawsuit accusing pharmaceutical firms of conspiring to artificially inflate the cost of common medicinal drugs. COMMENT Inflating […]

NEWS A UK health charity urging doctors to “carry on” prescribing opioid drugs was set up with funding from a pharmaceutical company that manufactures them. COMMENT While […]

NEWS Bayer’s credit rating is coming under scrutiny following its disastrous takeover of Monsanto. Ratings agency Moody’s is warning that cancer lawsuit legal settlements related to […]

NEWS Scientists have found some of the highest levels of pharmaceutical pollution ever recorded in the UK’s Humber estuary, which could be having a devastating impact […]

NEWS Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor has become the first pharmaceutical boss to be convicted in a case linked to the US opioid crisis. COMMENT As […]

NEWS A shareholder rebellion at Bayer AG is poised to worsen after the company’s supervisory board ignored an unprecedented vote of no-confidence against the leadership of Chief Executive […]

NEWS Women who take antibiotics over a long period of time are at increased risk of heart attack or stroke, according to research carried out in […]