Health Care

U.S. retail pharmacy CVS reached a $69 billion deal to acquire health insurance giant Aetna on Sunday, a move intended to increase convenience for consumers as Amazon appears to be eyeing a slice of the health care market.

CVS Health Corp's. proposed purchase of Aetna Inc. will change the way many major U.S. corporations buy health coverage for employees and raise new questions over the cost of those benefits, benefit consultants said.

U.S. drugstore chain operator CVS Health Corp. said on Sunday it had agreed to acquire U.S. health insurer Aetna Inc. for $69 billion, seeking to tackle soaring healthcare spending through lower-cost medical services in pharmacies.

The manufacturer of a dengue vaccine whose use was suspended by the Philippines last week after a study showed risks of severe cases in people without previous infection says it is working to resolve those fears.

CVS Health wants to do much more than fill your prescription or jab your arm with an annual flu shot.

CVS will buy insurance giant Aetna in a roughly $69 billion deal that will help the drugstore chain provide more health care and keep a key client, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

A CVS-Aetna combination could create a health colossus that would reach deeper into the average customer's life to manage care and cut costs, according to analysts who follow the companies.

The government wants to seize Martin Shkreli's one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album.

Cuba is working on fixing chronic medicine shortages that started appearing a year ago due to its cash crunch, health officials said in an article published late on Thursday in ruling Communist Party newspaper Granma.

Clay craft kits that may contain mold are among this week's recalled consumer products.

Ford is recalling more than 202,000 pickup trucks and SUVs in North America because front seat cushions can come loose and fail to properly hold people in a crash.

U.S. regulators have approved a first-of-a-kind test that looks for mutations in hundreds of cancer genes at once using a single tumor sample.

Rhode Island health officials have ordered Memorial Hospital in Pawtucket to stop admitting new patients, serving emergency patients and performing surgery.

An arbitration tribunal has ordered New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra to pay Danone of France $125 million for recall costs stemming from a 2013 food scare.

U.S. health retailer and pharmacy CVS Health (NYSE:CVS) is nearing a deal to buy Aetna (NYSE:AET), one of the nation’s largest health insurance companies.

Drugmaker Sanofi says that its dengue vaccine, the world's first, could put people at risk of severe disease if they haven't previously been infected, according to new long-term data.

Chipotle says it is looking for a new CEO, with its founder transitioning to executive chairman once someone new is in place at the top post.

The Latest on the nomination of Alex Azar to be health secretary (all times local): 9:35 a.m.

A federal investigation of three fatal crashes involving vehicles transporting migrant farmworkers has found that government enforcement of agricultural transportation safety laws is ineffective.

An estimated one in 10 drugs sold in low- and middle-income countries are fake or “substandard,” causing tens of thousands of deaths, according a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO).