A designer drug described as 10 times more potent than fentanyl is causing an uptick in U.S. overdoses, according to health officials in multiple states. Known as cychlorphine, the synthetic opioid is ...

Bird poop scraped off a man’s car appeared on a drug test as cocaine. A toddler’s ashes registered as methamphetamine or ecstasy. And a great-grandmother’s medicine tested positive for cocaine – ...

A baffling overdose death took investigators to the frontier of ultra-potent synthetic drugs. The clues were hauntingly familiar. The New Drug War A baffling overdose death took investigators to the ...

President Donald Trump has said that Americans are now paying or will pay “the lowest price anywhere in the world for drugs,” thanks to the administration’s negotiations with pharmaceutical companies.

President Trump's new TrumpRx online platform is a key part of his plan to help lower drug costs for consumers, with some polls showing two-thirds of Americans report high health care costs as their ...

Ed Silverman, a senior writer and Pharmalot columnist at STAT, has been covering the pharmaceutical industry for nearly three decades. He is also the author of the morning Pharmalittle newsletter and ...

The FTC first sued Express Scripts, CVS Caremark, and Optum in 2024, claiming anticompetitive and unfair rebating practices surrounding insulin. “Caremark, [Express Scripts], and Optum—as medication ...

The Federal Trade Commission said it has reached a settlement with Express Scripts, resolving an earlier lawsuit that alleged the pharmacy benefit manager artificially inflated insulin drug prices.

Cigna Corp's Express Scripts has settled the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's claims its insulin pricing practices violated antitrust and consumer protection laws, and agreed to changes aimed at ...

The Trump administration announced that the company, a pharmacy benefit manager, had agreed to make significant changes to its practices. By Rebecca Robbins and Reed Abelson The reporters have ...

Grocery chain Albertsons, which offers pharmacies, is suing the Cigna-owned pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts for at least $10.9 million over alleged prescription underpayments, according to a ...