Andrew Joseph covers health, medicine, and the biopharma industry in Europe. You can reach Andrew on Signal at drewqjoseph.45. LONDON — The U.K.-based drugmaker GSK said early Wednesday that it planned to invest $30 billion in the U.S. over five years, an announcement timed to this week’s state visit here by President Trump. The company, […]

WASHINGTON — Congress is again discussing the Trump administration’s plan to force drug companies to lower their U.S. prices, at least behind the scenes. Congressional staffers and health policy experts from major think tanks held a closed-door meeting to discuss policy options that would peg U.S. prices for drugs to what other countries pay, called […]

FDA leaders under President Donald Trump are moving to abandon a decades-old policy of asking outside experts to review drug applications, a move critics say would shield the agency’s decisions from public scrutiny. The agency “would like to get away” from assembling panels of experts to examine and vote on individual drugs, because “I don’t […]

This article first appeared in the newsletter Your Local Epidemiologist.Pharmaceutical ads in the United States are annoying. Absurd. And almost uniquely American. In fact, only one other high-income country in the entire world — New Zealand — allows prescription drug companies to advertise directly to consumers. Everyone else has decided the downsides aren’t worth it. […]

Two violent acts on Wednesday — the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and the shooting of two high school students in Colorado — crystallize the threat gun violence poses to public health. Yet the Trump administration just shut down its biggest programs devoted to preventing such violence. For decades, the Centers for Disease Control […]

Adam Feuerstein is a senior writer and biotech columnist, reporting on the crossroads of drug development, business, Wall Street, and biotechnology. He is also a co-host of the weekly biotech podcast The Readout Loud and author of the newsletter Adam’s Biotech Scorecard. You can reach Adam on Signal at stataf.54. Allison DeAngelis is the East […]

Federal agencies have begun to inform Harvard that it is in the process of restoring at least some of its previously canceled research funding. The notices come a week after a federal judge in Boston said the Trump administration illegally canceled nearly $3 billion in Harvard’s research funding, calling the government’s efforts to curb antisemitism […]

On Tuesday, Aaron Siri, personal lawyer and close adviser to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., presented his “smoking gun” at a Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing on vaccine science. Siri, who has represented Kennedy in multiple lawsuits against federal health agencies and reportedly helped interview candidates for Department of Health and Human Services positions, unveiled […]

Casey Ross covers the use of artificial intelligence in medicine and its underlying questions of safety, fairness, and privacy. In a rare legal setback, Epic Systems will face claims that it illegally used monopoly power as the nation’s dominant electronic health record vendor to unfairly butt out a rival from a growing business serving health […]

LONDON — A British cardiologist who has touted his connections to top Trump administration health officials has set off a furor in U.K. health circles after giving a speech at a political conference in which he made a number of false claims about the Covid-19 vaccine. Speaking at the conference of the ascendant right-wing political […]