Healthy Returns: Medicaid cuts in Trump’s megabill may affect some drugmakers more than others

Healthy Returns: Medicaid cuts in Trump’s megabill may affect some drugmakers more than others

U.S. President Donald Trump presents a sweeping spending and tax legislation, known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” after he signed it, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2025. Leah Millis | Reuters A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Healthy Returns newsletter, which brings the latest health-care … Read more

Moderna’s flu vaccine shows positive late-stage trial results, paving way for combination Covid shot

Moderna’s flu vaccine shows positive late-stage trial results, paving way for combination Covid shot

The Moderna Inc. headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on March 26, 2024. Adam Glanzman | Bloomberg | Getty Images Moderna on Monday said its experimental mRNA-based flu vaccine produced a stronger immune response than a currently available shot in a late-stage trial, clearing a path forward for the product and the company’s separate combination flu and … Read more

Democrats press Pfizer, J&J and others over low tax bills and lobbying as Senate debates Trump’s plan

Democrats press Pfizer, J&J and others over low tax bills and lobbying as Senate debates Trump’s plan

The Johnson & Johnson logo displayed on a monitor. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Two Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday pressed five of the nation’s largest pharmaceutical companies about their low tax bills and whether they support extending massive tax cuts for the industry in the GOP reconciliation bill. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and … Read more

Targeted cancer drugs may replace chemo for some patients — and drugmakers say they’re getting closer

Targeted cancer drugs may replace chemo for some patients — and drugmakers say they’re getting closer

Antibody drug conjugates (ADCs) are targeted medicines that deliver chemotherapy agents to cancer cells 3d rendering Love Employee | Istock | Getty Images Chemotherapy has long been a cornerstone of cancer treatment, saving millions of lives. But the pharmaceutical industry says a popular class of targeted cancer therapies could one day replace chemotherapy and its … Read more

RFK Jr.’s firing of CDC vaccine panel undermines science, could threaten public health, experts say

RFK Jr.’s firing of CDC vaccine panel undermines science, could threaten public health, experts say

U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. leaves the stage after discussing the findings of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) latest Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network survey, at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 16, 2025. Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters … Read more

FDA approves Merck’s RSV shot for infants, ramping up competition with Sanofi and AstraZeneca

FDA approves Merck’s RSV shot for infants, ramping up competition with Sanofi and AstraZeneca

The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved Merck’s shot designed to protect infants from respiratory syncytial virus during their first season of the virus, bringing to market a rival to a similar treatment from Sanofi and AstraZeneca. The decision will allow the company to launch the drug, which will be marketed as Enflonsia, ahead … Read more

Healthy Returns: AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Gilead and other drugmakers release promising cancer drug data at ASCO

Healthy Returns: AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Gilead and other drugmakers release promising cancer drug data at ASCO

Attendees walk through the lobby at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting in Chicago. Tim Boyle | Bloomberg | Getty Images A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Healthy Returns newsletter, which brings the latest health-care news straight to your inbox. Subscribe here to receive future editions. I’m back in New … Read more

Healthy Returns: RFK Jr.’s Covid vaccine recommendation change could threaten health, access

Healthy Returns: RFK Jr.’s Covid vaccine recommendation change could threaten health, access

A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Healthy Returns newsletter, which brings the latest health-care news straight to your inbox. Subscribe here to receive future editions. A wave of outrage is sweeping the scientific and medical world after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to stop recommending routine Covid-19 … Read more

Healthy Returns: Novavax scores narrower Covid vaccine approval after delay

Healthy Returns: Novavax scores narrower Covid vaccine approval after delay

A health worker prepares a dose of the Novavax vaccine as the Dutch Health Service Organization starts with the Novavax vaccination program on March 21, 2022 in The Hague, Netherlands. Patrick Van Katwijk | Getty Images A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Healthy Returns newsletter, which brings the latest health-care news straight … Read more

Trump wants to slash U.S. drug prices with ‘most favored nation’ policy – here’s what to know 

Trump wants to slash U.S. drug prices with ‘most favored nation’ policy – here’s what to know 

President Donald Trump, joined by National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Jay Bhattacharya, speaks during a press conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on May 12, 2025, in Washington, DC. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images News | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Monday moved forward with a plan to lower U.S. … Read more