Global spending on drugs is expected to reach approximately $1.6 trillion by 2025, according to a new research report.

Paris prosecutors are taking on and combining into an involuntary manslaughter probe three separate investigations over the deaths of three people who were given the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in France.

British lawmakers have called on Boris Johnson’s government to publish all communications with pharmaceutical companies to see whether private lobbying influenced its opposition to a waiver of intellectual property rules for COVID-19 vaccines.

Pfizer’s CEO says he believes people will 'likely' need a third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, with annual vaccinations to follow.

The United States, South Africa, and the European Union will temporarily stop the rollout of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, after reports of it causing blood clots.

A new Canadian study has shown that certain types of blood pressure drugs – known as thiazide diuretics – are associated with higher rates of skin cancer.

More than 500 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have now been given around the world, according to the AFP news agency.

A new analysis of COVID-19 hospitalizations in the United States during the first 6 months of the pandemic shows that more than half resulted in a patient receiving an antibiotic, even when no bacterial infection was present.