Health

A surprise bid for the consumer-healthcare business jointly owned by GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer is risky and only half of the target may really be worth owning.

The Dove soap maker laid out its biggest strategic shift in years after disclosing a $68 billion approach for GlaxoSmithKline’s consumer-health business.

Justices deliver mixed outcome on administration’s Covid-19 mandates, upending the government’s most aggressive effort to combat the pandemic via the workplace.

A robust outreach campaign and broader consumer subsidies are credited for the increase.

With less than half of India’s population fully vaccinated and infections rising rapidly, public-health experts warn that the healthcare system is again vulnerable—months after being overwhelmed by a surge of cases.

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s new requirement is awaiting approval from the state’s public-health panel, which she said she expects promptly.

Oracle’s $28.3 billion deal to buy electronic-medical-records company Cerner could address a major challenge in healthcare, that of datasets that can’t communicate with one another, analysts said.

Justices denied emergency requests over Covid-19 vaccinations, upholding a lower-court ruling and echoing a similar denial in Maine.

Two chief information security officers on where the threats are coming from, and how the industry can protect itself.

Johnson & Johnson is trying to figure out how to divide its supply chain and substantial financial holdings as part of a planned split into two publicly traded businesses.

Some hospitals, nursing homes and other healthcare providers are preparing to operate without up to a third of their staff at the start of next year, if those workers don’t comply with a federal mandate to get vaccinated.

In spinning off its healthcare business, GE is betting on the fast-growing diagnostic-imaging-equipment market, a sector facing disruption from artificial intelligence and growing competition from startups.

Robert Califf, a Duke University cardiologist who has recently overseen strategy at Alphabet’s healthcare subsidiaries, ran the FDA at the end of the Obama administration.

General Electric Co. once sprawled across 13 industries, including insurance, plastics and even media. Here is a visualization of the changes, merges and splits that led to GE’s plan to become three public companies.

The firm is leading a $150 million commitment to newly set-up Medicare Advantage broker Enhance Health.

Measures agreed to among congressional Democrats this week to lower prescription-drug costs for seniors could have been far more draconian.

Christians who oppose abortion said they wouldn’t get available Covid-19 vaccines because they were developed using fetal tissue.

Revenue increased in the company’s jet-engine business as travel rebounded from the start of the pandemic, but its healthcare sales declined amid supply-chain disruptions.

CVS Health is introducing its first major ad campaign aiming to show the breadth of its health services and the role that the company played during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Among the hardest challenges in the drive to vaccinate Americans against Covid-19 are a minority of medical professionals who distrust the pharmaceutical industry and regulators, fear long-term health effects and bristle at mandates.