All the headlines from our Drugs Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 21 2023 // Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton accused Pfizer PFE.N and its supplier Tris Pharma of providing children’s ADHD medicine that it knew might be ineffective to the state’s Medicaid insurance program for...
Nov 9 2023 // A federal judge on Monday pared back a U.S. government lawsuit accusing drug distributor Cencora, formerly called AmerisourceBergen, of fueling the nation’s deadly opioid epidemic by failing to report hundreds of...
Oct 4 2023 // Britain’s AstraZeneca has agreed to pay $425 million to settle about 11,000 lawsuits in the United States that claimed its heartburn drugs Nexium and Prilosec caused chronic kidney disease.AstraZeneca did not admit...
Sep 29 2023 // European authorities are investigating whether popular weight-loss and diabetes drugs including Novo Nordisk A/S’s Wegovy may be linked to complications during anesthesia.The European Medicines Agency’s safety...
Sep 26 2023 // Tampa police are investigating after family members of former NFL wide receiver Mike Williams said someone may have slipped him unprescribed opioid medication while he was in the hospital after a construction accident.A...
Aug 30 2023 // A motorist who veered off a highway and struck four state troopers was charged with operating under the influence of drugs, officials said Monday, as two of the troopers remained hospitalized.Three troopers and a...
Aug 28 2023 // Rite Aid Corp. is preparing to file for bankruptcy in coming weeks to address lawsuits the drugstore chain is facing over its alleged role in the sale of opioids, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people...
Jul 13 2023 // The European Union’s drug regulator expanded its investigation into a possible risk of suicidal thoughts associated with a new class of weight-loss medicines and a separate analysis found that most patients stopped...
Jul 10 2023 // The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is probing Novo Nordisk’s diabetes drug Ozempic and weight-loss treatment Saxenda after Iceland’s health regulator flagged three cases of patients on the drugs thinking about...
Jun 30 2023 // Andover, Massachusetts-based Injured Workers Pharmacy (IWP) has agreed to pay $10 million to resolve allegations that it violated the Controlled Substances Act by improperly filling prescriptions for controlled substances,...
Jun 26 2023 // A Port Allen, Louisiana pharmacy and its owner must pay $275,000 to resolve a federal civil lawsuit under the Controlled Substances Act, United States Attorney Ronald C. Gathe, Jr. announced.U.S. District Judge Brian A....
May 16 2023 // Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell’s office reports it has reached a $6.15 million settlement with CVS Pharmacy, Inc. to resolve allegations of overcharging for prescriptions for workers’...
Mar 22 2023 // The Superior Court of Delaware has reversed an order of the Industrial Accident Board (IAB) that an injured former employee stop her doctor-prescribed morphine treatments within six months. The court blasted the IAB for...
Mar 21 2023 // A Rite Aid Corp. shareholder on March 20 filed a securities class action lawsuit against the company as well as former and current executives, alleging Rite Aid has given false or misleading statements regarding its...
Feb 8 2023 // A federal appeals court threw out the convictions of a Wyoming doctor accused of overprescribing powerful pain medication and ordered a new trial for him.The Denver-based 10th Circuit Court of Appeals decision in the case...
Feb 1 2023 // Jessie Blanchard started small nearly five years ago, just trying to get enough of the rescue drug naloxone that reverses opioid overdoses to keep her daughter from dying from an overdose.She pleaded with colleagues at the...
Jan 19 2023 // The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is asking a federal court to bar a Florida drug company from making or shipping any more adulterated pharmaceutical ingredients and products that do not meet quality control...
Jan 17 2023 // California announced it will sue the companies that make and promote most of the nation’s insulin, accusing them of scheming to illegally increase the price of the drug and demanding they return millions of dollars...
Jan 9 2023 // A former Florida claims adjuster for State Farm Insurance and Berkshire Hathaway Group has pleaded guilty to participating in a brazen plan in which suspects posed as law officers and robbed alleged drug dealers in the...
Dec 20 2022 // Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey announced that a pharmacy benefits manager, Health E Systems, has agreed to pay $275,000 for allegedly failing to follow prescription pricing procedures that are designed to...