Paxlovid can have dangerous interactions with some of the most common medications for cardiovascular disease, including certain statins and heart failure therapies, a new paper warns. [...]

In Puerto Rico, cheap labor and generous tax breaks – since 2017, more than $100 billion worth – have made US-based pharmaceutical firms the biggest economic players in town. But a new report suggests that Big Pharma’s footprint on the island has come with other serious costs: illegal dumping of toxic waste, pollution and depletion of groundwater, and violations of other vital Environmental Protection Agency regulations.

People with dementia are likely to have taken more than three medications for other health conditions in the five years directly before their diagnosis, according to new research. [...]

Research published in the medical journal JAMA estimates that close to half of all new brand-name prescription drugs launched in the United States in 2020 and 2021 came with an original price tag of at least $150,000 a year, a finding that sparked fresh calls for Congress to rein in the pharmaceutical industry’s virtually unchecked power to drive up costs.

Doctors must stop doling out “a pill for every ill” as it leaves millions of patients hooked on drugs they do not need, England’s most senior doctor has said.

A new study shows that cholesterol-lowering statin drugs may increase the risk of cataracts.

Pfizer is projected to rake in more than $50 billion from its COVID medicines this year.

Pregnant women who take painkillers such as paracetamol or ibuprofen are more likely to have complications, a study has found.