This infographic compares the price of a selection of pharmaceutical drugs in the U.S. and abroad as of Jan. 2026 (in U.S.

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The US Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved a daily pill version of Novo Nordisk’s weight-loss drug Wegovy, introducing a new option for how patients can take medicines in a class of drugs ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order making some big changes to marijuana policy, the most substantial since 1970. On Dec. 18, Trump ordered the government to stop classifying ...

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Several common drugs will be cheaper next year under Medicare, from weight-loss drug Ozempic to breast-cancer medication Ibrance, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. The Trump administration’s undeclared war on what it calls “narco-terrorists” in ...

Last month, the U.S. Senate narrowly rejected a bipartisan resolution recently that would have prevented the Trump administration from launching military strikes in Venezuela without congressional ...

Last April, neuroscientist Sue Grigson received an e-mail from a man detailing his years-long struggle to kick addiction — first to opioids, and then to the very medication meant to help him quit. The ...

Medicare has completed its second round of price negotiations for 15 top-selling prescription drugs and posted maximum fair prices, per an Inflation Reduction Act provision. The announced net prices, ...

John Wilkerson is a Washington correspondent for STAT who writes about the politics of health care. He is also the author of the twice-weekly D.C. Diagnosis newsletter. Elaine Chen covers biotech, ...