Health Care

Dr. Samuel Waxman, of the Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation, says the rise in life expectancy will cause a cancer crisis.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that more than 90 Americans are dying due to opioid overdoses every day, but Express Scripts (NASDAQ:ESRX) – the nation’s largest pharmacy benefits manager – has teamed up with 600 employers and health plans to launch a program aimed at patients that are newly prescribed opioids.

Senate Republicans meet to discuss alternatives to the American Health Care Act.

The nation’s second largest health insurance company, Anthem (NYSE:ANTM), will extract itself from the ObamaCare exchanges in the state of Ohio by 2018, the company announced Tuesday.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says a Kentucky-based food distributor has issued a recall on more than 22,000 pounds of ground beef and other beef products due to possible E. coli bacteria contamination.

Drugmaker Perrigo said on Monday that Chief Executive John Hendrickson planned to retire.

Drugmakers are finding they can improve how drug testing is conducted— and help their own bottom lines — by giving patients a voice before testing even begins.

More than 7,000 children's robes are being recalled this week because they fail to meet flammability standards.

Some imported frozen tuna cubes and steaks are being recalled after testing showed they could be contaminated with the hepatitis A virus.

Senate Republicans are considering taxing employer-sponsored health insurance plans which would potentially raise taxes on millions of people who get coverage on the job.

Toyota is recalling 36,000 Tacoma pickups in North and South America because they can stall without warning.

Drugmaker Eli Lilly will end 2017 like it did 2016, with the departure of a top executive.

U.S. stock indexes are falling for the second day in a row Wednesday as energy companies tumble with the price of oil.

A longshot California proposal to replace insurance companies with government-funded health care for all could be paid for with a sales tax hike and a new tax on business revenue that together would generate $106 billion annually, according to a report released Wednesday.

One of the country's largest vendors of electronic health records will pay a $155 million settlement to resolve allegations it caused health care providers to submit false claims to the federal government, the U.S. Department of Justice and federal prosecutors in Vermont announced Wednesday.

Drug maker Mylan (NASDAQ:MYL), which manufactures the allergy treatment EpiPen, found itself at the center of yet another controversy Wednesday, after the Department of Health and Human Services said the government may have overpaid the company by $1.27 billion from 2006-2016.

U.S. stock indexes edged lower for the second day in a row Wednesday as a sharp drop for banks and a rare loss for technology companies canceled out gains for drugmakers and consumer-focused companies.