Robert Langreth

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Merck headquarters in Rahway, New Jersey, US, on Tuesday, April 18, 2023. Merck & Co. will buy Prometheus Biosciences Inc. for about $10.8 billion to bolster its research pipeline and strengthen its portfolio of autoimmune drugs. Photographer: Christopher Occhicone/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Merck snags Chinese obesity drug in nearly $2 billion deal

By Robert Langreth and Bloomberg

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Ozempic linked to rare cases of vision loss in Harvard study

By Robert Langreth and Bloomberg

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA – MARCH 17: A flag flies above the headquarters campus of Eli Lilly and Company on March 17, 2024 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Lilly, a pharmaceutical company, employs more than 12.000 people in Indianapolis and more than 42,000 worldwide. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Lilly wins FDA approval for new drug to slow Alzheimer’s

By Madison Muller, Robert Langreth, and others

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‘Outrageous’: Bernie Sanders has Ozempic demands after study says it costs just $5 per month to manufacture

By Madison Muller, Robert Langreth, and others

CEO of Novo Nordisk Lars Fruergaard Jorgensen is seen during the 6th edition of the “Choose France” Summit at the Chateau de Versailles, outside Paris on May 15, 2023. Since 2018, the Choose France Summit seeks to promote France’s economic attractiveness and encourage international investment across the country and brings together hundreds of leaders from the largest multinational corporations. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFP) (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk facing pressure as study finds $1,000 appetite suppressant can be made for just $5

By Madison Muller, Robert Langreth, and others

MADRID, SPAIN – SEPTEMBER 26: A nurse prepares an injection of the Moderna dose vaccine during the start of the administration of the fourth dose of the vaccine against COVID-19 to users and social-healthcare workers in nursing homes, at the Vallecas public nursing home for the elderly, on 26 September, 2022 in Madrid, Spain. The Community of Madrid has begun to administer the fourth dose against Covid-19 to people admitted to 733 residential centers in the region who are over 80 years of age, based on vulnerability criteria. The Ministry of Health will have 44 million doses of vaccines adapted to variants against Covid-19, which will be distributed among the Autonomous Communities. (Photo By Alejandro Martinez Velez/Europa Press via Getty Images)

Moderna’s updated COVID vaccine helps fight against a new strain, study shows, and may be approved for use as soon as Friday

By Robert Langreth and Bloomberg

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Moderna’s Omicron vaccine produces antibodies against new variants, new trial shows

By Robert Langreth and Bloomberg

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Moderna says its Omicron-specific vaccine boosts antibodies in new trial

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New prescription drug prices soared to $180,000 a year on 20% annual inflation in 2021, study finds

By Robert Langreth and Bloomberg

Young girl gets Pfizer COVID vaccine

Pfizer says a third vaccine dose boosts antibodies against Omicron in kids 5 to 11

By Robert Langreth and Bloomberg

LOS ANGELES, CA – DECEMBER 31: Registered nurse Akiko Gordon, left, and Dr. Jason Prasso, right, are working inside the ICU with a covid-19 positive patient at Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital (MLKCH) on Friday, Dec. 31, 2021 in Los Angeles, CA.

Almost all teens needing ICU care for COVID are unvaccinated

By Robert Langreth and Bloomberg

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FDA set to authorize Pfizer and Merck COVID pills this week

By Josh Wingrove, Jennifer Jacobs, and others

Doses of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine await to be administered after it was approved for use by the FDA in children 12 and over at a Los Angeles County mobile vaccination clinic on May 14, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Patrick T. FALLON / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

Pfizer: COVID vaccine is 91% effective in kids ages 5 to 11

By Robert Langreth and Bloomberg

WINTER SPRINGS, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES – 2021/09/11: Vials of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine are seen at a vaccination clinic at Winter Springs High School. As of September 10, 2021, 54% of Florida’s population has been fully vaccinated. (Photo by Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Pfizer submits request to authorize COVID vaccine for kids to FDA

By Robert Langreth, Catherine Larkin, and others

Vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech (Comirnaty) vaccine seen in mass vaccination in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia on October 5, 2021. as Indonesia’s vaccination ranks fifth in the world for the number of injections. (Photo by Adriana Adie/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Two recent studies help explain breakthrough infections in those with two COVID-19 vaccine doses

By Alisa Odenheimer, Robert Langreth, and others