The activist investor claims Pfizer failed to capitalize on the windfall earned from its COVID-19 vaccine and, in the process, destroyed tens of billions of dollars in market value.

Walmart (WMT.N) said on Tuesday it will now deliver prescription medicines and medication refills as a single order along with groceries and other items as soon as 30 minutes, as part of its new express delivery option.

Health insurance giants Cigna and Humana have rekindled merger talks that they had abandoned late last year, as first reported by Bloomberg and confirmed by Axios.

Why it matters: This would create a new titan in a health-care industry dominated by them, rivaling current insurance leaders UnitedHealth and Aetna.

DOJ challenges Johnson & Johnson’s talc bankruptcy attempt in Texas
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The gene editing company will focus on “in vivo” medicines, while seeking to license out or find a development partner for its treatment reni-cel.

A medicine the pharma acquired in a 2018 buyout of Visterra succeeded in a Phase 3 trial in IgA nephropathy, a crowded corner of drug research.

After initially declaring the shortage of Eli Lilly’s diabetes and weight loss drugs over, the FDA has re-opened the door for GLP-1 compounders.

FDA and CBP announced the seizure of $76 million of unauthorized e-cigarette products

Early data from Wave Life Sciences suggests how editing RNA may yield viable medicines. Large and small drugmakers say such results are just the start.

There’s no disguising the fact that there’s a great deal of demand for Intuitive Surgical’s Dv5 platform. Executives from the Sunnyvale, CA-based company spoke about the hot demand for the fifth iteration of the da Vinci surgical platform, which received a nod from FDA in March.