Ed Silverman, a senior writer and Pharmalot columnist at STAT, has been covering the pharmaceutical industry for nearly three decades. He is also the author of the morning Pharmalittle newsletter and ...

Companies don’t generally cut prices out of generosity. For most of Big Pharma, drug discounts have largely been about damage control. After months of tariff threats and talk of tougher pricing rules ...

Evidence is mounting that the wildly popular weight-loss medicines known as GLP-1s may also hold potential for treating ...

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“Bath salts” is a term for a group of illegal drugs known as synthetic cathinones. Some people take them to experience euphoria. They can cause severe psychological and neurological problems. While ...

Big Pharma recently announced a marketing campaign posing as patient advocacy. The industry’s trade association and advocacy arm said it is spending hundreds of billions of dollars to develop drugs ...

Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary said in September he was changing leucovorin’s label because it could ...

The biggest recent news in prescription drugs was Pfizer's agreement to provide direct-to-consumer drug access through a partnership with President Donald Trump's administration. The impact of the ...

Investigation raises concerns about lack of FDA quality testing for generic drugs By some estimates, about 90% of prescriptions in the U.S. are filled with generic drugs. The Food and Drug ...

Black box warnings, or boxed warnings, are serious warnings that come from the FDA. They are meant to alert people about drug effects that may be dangerous. Specific drugs may carry a boxed warning, ...