Martin Shkreli, the former drug firm executive who ordered dramatic price hikes of Daraprim (Pyrimethamine), an anti-parasitic medicine, has been barred from the pharma industry for life. A US federal judge ordered him to repay $64.6m (£47m) in profits he made from the scheme, ruling that his actions had violated laws against monopolies. Shkreli is currently serving a prison sentence for defrauding investors.

The Canadian Covid Care Alliance (CCCA), a group consisting of over 500 independent Canadian doctors, scientists, and health care practitioners, has released a report and video suggesting that Pfizer’s mRNA vaccination against COVID-19 is doing more harm than good.

Germany's BioNTech and US pharma giant Pfizer, which together developed a COVID-19 vaccine in record time, say they are working on a shingles shot using the same mRNA technology.

A federal judge in Texas has ordered the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to make public the data it relied on to license Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, imposing a dramatically accelerated schedule that should result in the release of all information within about eight months.

A US federal judge has rejected OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy settlement of thousands of lawsuits over the opioid epidemic because of a provision that would protect members of the Sackler family from facing litigation of their own.

The members of the billionaire Sackler family that own Purdue Pharma may have abused the bankruptcy system by removing billions of dollars from the drugmaker in recent years, a US federal judge has said.

Drug firms say they will be able to rapidly adapt their vaccinations if the Omicron variant spreads.

Previous research has found that chemotherapy can trigger muscle loss in people living with cancer, but a new study found it may also affect the way the body builds new muscle — and at lower doses than previously known.