Health

Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca said on Tuesday it had agreed to buy infectious disease vaccine developer Icosavax in a deal worth up to $1.1bn to support

Bristol Myers Squibb said on Monday it will pay $800 million upfront and up to $8.4 billion to Sichuan Biokin Pharmaceutical to develop and commercialise

Patients taking Eli Lilly’s weight-loss drug Zepbound gained significant weight almost a year after stopping treatment, according to the full results of a study. The

US health insurer Cigna has abandoned efforts to negotiate the acquisition of rival Humana after the pair failed to agree on a price, two sources

Nearly 1,000 seals and sea lions in southern Brazil have died from outbreaks of bird flu, officials say. Rio Grande do Sul has confirmed the

With the cost of private dentistry prohibitive for many, the crisis has added to a sense of unease in Britain, where a national institution like

A pregnant woman and Planned Parenthood sued Kentucky to overturn its near-total ban on abortion, claiming the law violates the rights to privacy and self-determination

On Friday, the US Food and Drug Administration approved two gene-based treatments for sickle cell anaemia, making one of them the first treatment in the

Hong Kong authorities have ordered the slaughter of more than 900 pigs after the presence of deadly African swine fever was detected on a licensed

About 6,700 ducks and geese will be slaughtered after an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza on a farm in eastern Germany, authorities said