Berkshire Hathaway, the investment company run by multibillionaire Warren Buffet, bought shares in drug companies AbbVie, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Merck and Pfizer between July and September, according to filings with the US regulator.

A new study claims the side effects reported by patients taking statin drugs are supposedly ‘all in the mind’.

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla sold almost $5.6 million worth of stock the same day his company announced data on its experimental coronavirus vaccine that sent shares soaring.

Paracetamol, or acetaminophen, is one of the most popular painkillers in the world. Overdoses from the drug have been on the rise in many nations.

Nearly 60 per cent of all cancer patients do not respond effectively to chemotherapy treatments, say scientists from Purdue University.

U.S. government officials are putting an early end to a study testing an Eli Lilly antibody drug for people hospitalized with Covid-19 because it doesn’t seem to be helping them.

The maker of OxyContin painkillers has reached an $8.3 billion settlement and agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges to resolve a probe of its role in fueling America's opioid crisis.

Well over one-quarter of all state lawmakers in the United States have accepted money from the pharmaceutical industry since the beginning of 2019, according to a new analysis.