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.

More than half of older patients hospitalized for heart failure, a progressive condition in which the heart doesn't pump blood as well as it should, are discharged from the hospital with prescriptions for 10 or more medications, according to new research published in Circulation: Heart Failure, an American Heart Association journal.

Researchers report that newer antipsychotic medications for treating adult depression are linked to an increased mortality risk.

Healthcare professionals need to improve their knowledge of commonly used medications that can cause irregular heartbeats, according to a scientific statement from the American Heart Association published by the journal Circulation.

Chemotherapy changes the function of cells that repair heart injury, researchers have found. Twenty percent of children treated with drugs called anthracyclines go on to suffer heart failure later in life.

Hundreds of patient charities in the UK are failing to declare multimillion donations received from the world’s largest drug companies.