Health Care

Several drugmakers, including Pfizer, have cut back on neuroscience research after a string of costly trials yielded disappointing results, with some of them betting on startups that are focusing on such areas.

The government says Medicare's financial problems are getting worse and Social Security's can't be ignored.

Social Security costs in 2018 will exceed income for the first time in more than three decades.

U.S. stocks are rising Monday morning as technology companies and banks gain ground.

German pharmaceutical company Bayer AG said Monday that it plans to complete its purchase of U.S. seed and weed-killer maker Monsanto Co. this week after receiving all the required approvals from regulators.

Medicare recipients filled fewer prescriptions for pricey brand-name drugs — but spent more on such meds anyway, says a government report due out Monday.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration chief has made a commitment to speeding up approvals of cheap generic medicines.

A Houston hospital has suspended all medical procedures in its renowned heart transplant program following the deaths this year of at least three patients.

A Texas meatpacker is recalling more than 9 tons (8.16 metric tons) of smoked sausage over possible contamination by soft plastic in its second recall in a month.

Japanese carmaker Honda says another person has died in Malaysia after a flawed Takata airbag inflator exploded, raising the number of deaths linked to the defect in the Southeast Asian country to seven.

Every morning, 92-year-old Sidney Kramer wraps a blood pressure cuff around his arm and steps on a scale, and readings of his heart health beam to a team of nurses — and to his daughter's smartphone — miles from his Maryland home.

The pharmaceutical giant says affected packages contain out of sequence pills.

The deal adds more than 1 million Medicaid members in Michigan and Illinois.

German pharmaceutical giant Bayer AG has agreed to the U.S. government's demand that it sell about $9 billion in agriculture businesses as condition for acquiring Monsanto Co., a U.S. seed and weed-killer maker.

He says FDA approval of OxyContin gives the Connecticut company protection.

Alibaba receive newly issued shares in Ali Health, taking its economic interest in the firm to 56.2 percent.

What families should do to prepare as roles reverse.