Healthcare

Health officials are investigating cases involving patients who suffered complications after being injected with potentially contaminated medications made by a Tennessee specialty pharmacy. The Food and ...

Shares of some top pharmaceuticals companies were mixed at the close of trading: Baxter International Inc. fell $.64 or .9 percent, to $71.51. Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. rose $.40 or .9 percent, to $47.40. ...

Shares of some top medical devices companies were mixed at the close of trading: Allergan rose $.06 or .1 percent, to $98.02. Baxter International Inc. fell $.64 or .9 percent, to $71.51. Boston Scientific ...

Shares of some top health care equipment companies were mixed at the close of trading: Becton, Dickinson & Co. rose $.66 or .7 percent, to $100.83. Covidien fell $.04 or .1 percent, to $65.17. Patterson ...

Shares of some top biotechnology companies were mixed at the close of trading: Amgen Inc. rose $.29 or .3 percent, to $105.91. Biogen Idec rose $2.62 or 1.1 percent, to $235.24. Celgene Corp. fell $1.06 ...

Drug-maker ISTA Pharmaceuticals has pleaded guilty in a federal case involving its eye drug Xibrom. The Justice Department says the case was settled in U.S. District Court in Buffalo Friday. ISTA, which ...

Drug-maker ISTA Pharmaceuticals has pleaded guilty in a federal case involving its eye drug Xibrom. The Justice Department says the case was settled in U.S. District Court in Buffalo Friday. ISTA, which ...

Shares of Intuitive Surgical Inc. rose Friday after a jury ruled the company did not owe damages to the family of a patient who suffered complications following a surgery performed with Intuitive's da ...

Health insurers in Rhode Island are seeking double-digit increases in the premiums that individuals and small businesses will pay for coverage next year — the largest increases in years — as the federal ...

Shares of some top pharmaceuticals companies are down at 1 p.m.: Baxter International Inc. fell $.48 or .7 percent, to $71.67. Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. fell $.25 or .5 percent, to $46.75. Hospira fell ...

Shares of some top managed care companies are down at 1 p.m.: Aetna fell $.95 or 1.6 percent, to $59.44. Cigna Corp. fell $.57 or .8 percent, to $67.35. Humana Inc. fell $.64 or .8 percent, to $79.20. ...

Shares of some top medical devices companies are mixed at 1 p.m.: Allergan rose $.04 or percent, to $98.00. Baxter International Inc. fell $.48 or .7 percent, to $71.67. Boston Scientific Corp. fell $.02 ...

Shares of some top health care equipment companies are mixed at 1 p.m.: Becton, Dickinson & Co. rose $.27 or .3 percent, to $100.44. Covidien rose $.07 or .1 percent, to $65.28. Patterson fell $.37 or ...

Shares of some top biotechnology companies are mixed at 1 p.m.: Amgen Inc. fell $.16 or .2 percent, to $105.46. Biogen Idec fell $.30 or .1 percent, to $232.32. Celgene Corp. fell $1.47 or 1.2 percent, ...

Royalty Pharma disclosed Friday that a negligible number of Elan Corp. PLC shareholders have voted their shares in favor of its offer to buy the company. The New York company offered to buy Elan in February ...

Shares of Aveo Oncology sank Friday after the company said its partner Astellas won't ask European Union regulators to approve their kidney cancer pill tivozanib. Astellas said it was informed of Astellas' ...

Shares of some top managed care companies are down at 10 a.m.: Aetna fell $1.17 or 1.9 percent, to $59.22. Cigna Corp. fell $.75 or 1.1 percent, to $67.17. Humana Inc. fell $1.53 or 1.9 percent, to $78.31. ...

Shares of some top pharmaceuticals companies are down at 10 a.m.: Baxter International Inc. fell $.72 or 1.0 percent, to $71.43. Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. fell $.31 or .7 percent, to $46.69. Hospira fell ...

Shares of some top medical devices companies are down at 10 a.m.: Allergan fell $.28 or .3 percent, to $97.68. Baxter International Inc. fell $.72 or 1.0 percent, to $71.43. Boston Scientific Corp. fell ...

Shares of some top health care equipment companies are down at 10 a.m.: Becton, Dickinson & Co. fell $.95 or .9 percent, to $99.22. Covidien fell $.51 or .8 percent, to $64.70. Patterson fell $.77 or 1.9 ...

Shares of some top biotechnology companies are mixed at 10 a.m.: Amgen Inc. fell $.87 or .8 percent, to $104.75. Biogen Idec fell $2.02 or .9 percent, to $230.61. Celgene Corp. fell $.91 or .7 percent, ...

Health officials investigating a cluster of mysterious illnesses in Alabama closed their investigation Thursday after determining the illnesses were unrelated and no new bacteria or viruses were involved. ...

In the most prominent challenge of its kind, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. asked a federal appeals court Thursday for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees ...

Merck & Co. says it is ending development of an experimental Parkinson's disease drug because the drug wasn't working. Merck says it reviewed initial data from three late-stage clinical trials and did ...

Royalty Pharma has eased one of its conditions for completing its recently increased offer to buy Irish drugmaker Elan Corp. PLC for $12.50 per share, or about $7.5 billion. The New York company said Thursday ...

Shares of Indian pharmaceuticals firm Wockhardt plunged nearly 19 percent Friday, a day after it said the US drugs regulator had banned imports from one of its manufacturing units over quality concerns. ...

BIG PLANS: Johnson & Johnson says it's poised by 2017 to seek regulatory approval for a dozen new medicines and two dozen variations of existing ones. BIG IMPACT: Two experimental medicines could transform ...

Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. is challenging the part of the federal health care law that requires for-profit companies to offer employees health coverage that includes products the business owners find morally ...

Johnson & Johnson is developing what could eventually be game-changing treatments for depression and pain, and it's aiming to apply for approval of more than 10 new medicines by 2017, executives said Thursday ...

Omeros Corp. said Thursday it will start two midstage clinical trials of its drug OMS824 later this year, giving its stock a boost. The company said it will begin testing the drug as a treatment for the ...

World Health Organization officials said Thursday that their probe into the deadly new coronavirus that has now claimed 22 lives is being delayed because of a dispute over the ownership rights to a sample ...

BACK TO COURT: Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. is asking a federal appeals court for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage that includes access ...

Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. is challenging the part of the federal health care law that requires for-profit companies to offer employees health coverage that includes products the business owners find morally ...