Merck is closing in on a deal to buy Cidara Therapeutics in a deal valuing the biotechnology company at a premium to its $3.3 billion market capitalization, the Financial Times reported on
November 13, 2025
Mikael Dolsten, Pfizer's former research and development chief, has withdrawn his candidacy for Novo Nordisk's board, citing personal reasons, the Danish drugmaker said on Thursday.
November 13, 2025
The agreement to end the longest-ever U.S. government shutdown includes a provision to stop the spread of intoxicating cannabis-infused beverages sold in some
November 14, 2025
A tanker truck spewing hazardous gas in an Oklahoma hotel parking lot forced hotel guests and hundreds of residents to evacuate in the overnight hours
November 13, 2025
The Dallas Cowboys have Marshawn Kneeland on their minds as they get back to the business of football
November 14, 2025
Cuba is fighting a wave of mosquito-borne illnesses including dengue and chikungunya virus that have swept the island in recent weeks, affecting nearly one-third of the population
November 13, 2025
The longest government shutdown in U.S. history may be officially over, but getting everything back up and running won't happen all at once
November 13, 2025
Pfizer Inc said on Thursday it sold a part of its stake in German drugmaker BioNTech SE, more than five years after both firms formed an alliance that yielded a vaccine to combat the deadly
November 13, 2025
New York Knicks All-Star guard Jalen Brunson will miss at least one game with a sprained right ankle
November 13, 2025
U.S. Democratic Senator John Fetterman was hospitalized on Thursday after falling during an early morning walk, but is doing well and receiving routine observation, his spokesperson said.
November 13, 2025
Families and staff who rely on the federal preschool program Head Start may have to wait even longer to return to their centers even though the 43-day government shutdown ended Wednesday night
November 13, 2025
With more than a half-million people worldwide dying from heat-related causes every year, a group of philanthropies is putting $300 million
November 13, 2025
Federal workers are expressing relief and frustration as the longest government shutdown has come to an end
November 13, 2025
Bookstore faces city action over homeless encampment
November 13, 2025
State officials are working to restore full SNAP benefits to millions of people after the long U.S. government shutdown has finally ended
November 13, 2025
Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly do not have a weight-loss drug partnership with telehealth website Mangoceuticals Inc, spokespeople for both companies said, rejecting a press release issued by
November 13, 2025
The U.S.
November 13, 2025
U.S. Sen. John Fetterman had what his office says was a “ventricular fibrillation flare-up” that caused him to feel light-headed and fall during an early morning walk
November 13, 2025
Houston quarterback C
November 13, 2025
First lady Melania Trump is leading a new initiative to improve career and education opportunities for children raised in foster care
November 13, 2025
First love, last love: Omaha couple gets married after six decades apart
November 13, 2025
Minnesota man kills co-worker with sledgehammer, saying he didn't like her, charges say
November 13, 2025
Now that the government shutdown is over, House and Senate Republicans say they'll negotiate with Democrats on whether to extend COVID-era tax credits that help tens of millions of Americans afford their health care premiums
November 13, 2025
There's a new frontier in treating autoimmune diseases
November 13, 2025
Doritos and Cheetos are getting a makeover
November 13, 2025
TCU student's blanket project brings comfort to kids in pain
November 13, 2025
Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman hospitalized after fall but ‘doing well,’ spokesperson says
November 13, 2025
The parents of two babies who were sickened in an infantile botulism outbreak linked to recalled ByHeart infant formula are suing the company
November 13, 2025
The U.S. government is due to lumber back to life on Thursday after the longest shutdown in U.S. history snarled air traffic, cut food
November 13, 2025
Kevin Mackey, known for leading Cleveland State to a stunning NCAA Tournament victory over Indiana in 1986, has died
November 13, 2025
Working professionals in the U.S. are taking on side jobs to supplement their incomes amid frozen salaries, inflation and fear of layoffs
November 13, 2025
Gov. Patrick Morrisey says crews have found the body of a coal miner missing for days after a mine flooded in West Virginia
November 13, 2025
First-of-its-kind study may help explain why colorectal cancers are rising sharply in young people
November 13, 2025
Africa is facing the worst outbreak of cholera in 25 years, the Africa CDC told reporters in a briefing on Thursday, blaming the rise on fragile water systems and conflict.
November 13, 2025
Novo Nordisk faces a shareholder backlash on Friday as the Danish drugmaker's minority investors prepare a protest vote against
November 13, 2025
Pfizer on Thursday closed its up to $10 billion acquisition of Metsera after winning shareholder approval, gaining a foothold in the fast-growing obesity
November 13, 2025
By Deepa Seetharaman SAN FRANCISCO -ChatGPT maker OpenAI on Thursday said it will invest in a startup focused on blocking bad actors from creating biological weapons powered by artificial intelligence
November 13, 2025
Hutchinson food truck giving back after son’s brain tumor diagnosis
November 13, 2025
Doctors say they’re ‘measurably closer’ to making pig kidneys work for humans
November 13, 2025
The funding gap for aid agencies is accentuating Sudan's crisis, leaving them unable to help many of the tens of thousands of people fleeing from the Darfur city of al-
November 13, 2025
Quantavia Smith, who was often homeless for a decade, now has a studio apartment in Los Angeles with easy access to public transit
November 13, 2025
Airline High School cheerleader encourages 'Curvy Girls' with scoliosis
November 13, 2025
The drug information sheets that the FDA requires companies to produce are living documents that get updated with new information.
November 13, 2025
BioNTech said on Thursday that its collaboration with Pfizer has not changed, when asked to comment on a report that Pfizer is looking to sell its stake in the German biotech firm
November 13, 2025
3 people charged with child neglect after 14-year-old found severely malnourished
November 13, 2025
The British government has confirmed that a memorial wall in London created by relatives who lost loved ones during the coronavirus pandemic will be preserved
November 13, 2025
WeightWatchers' CEO said on Wednesday it planned to offer Novo Nordisk's much-anticipated Wegovy in pill form if it is launched next year in the United States,
November 12, 2025
‘A death sentence for my son’: Israel plans to deport sick Palestinians back to Gaza, patients and doctors say
November 12, 2025
Maria Gladys Primo cannot hold back tears as she recalls the night of November 13, 1985, when she last saw her two young children, before a landslide of mud,
November 13, 2025
Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, 84, hospitalized
November 13, 2025
The government shutdown is over, but things are not back to normal
November 13, 2025
‘Things are pretty crappy.’ 1 in 4 US households are living paycheck to paycheck
November 13, 2025
India's Biocon expects a 50% drop in costs for developing complex biosimilars as the United States has proposed to ease clinical testing for the drugs that make up more
November 13, 2025
Accused by her aunt at age 13 of being a witch responsible for her family's misfortunes, Faith ran away from her rural home in the southern Nigerian state of
November 13, 2025
U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson is hospitalized and currently under observation for progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), the Chicago-based Rainbow PUSH Coalition, which he founded,
November 13, 2025
Sergio Melendro was among hundreds of children missing after a volcanic eruption devastated Armero, Colombia, in 1985 and his mother Martha Lucía López still searches for him
November 13, 2025
President Donald Trump has signed a government funding bill that ends a record 43-day shutdown
November 12, 2025
President Donald Trump has signed a government funding bill to end a record 43-day shutdown that caused financial stress for federal workers who went without paychecks, stranded scores of travelers at airports and generated long lines at some food banks
November 12, 2025
President Trump signs bill to reopen government, ending longest shutdown in US history
November 12, 2025
When Fusarium graminearum infects wheat, it can pose a risk to humans, animals and agriculture.
November 12, 2025
The longest government shutdown in history has come to an end, with almost no one happy with the final result
November 12, 2025
Shah Capital, Novavax's second-largest shareholder, is pressing the biotech's board to pursue strategic changes, including a potential sale, and warned it
November 12, 2025
The U.S.
November 12, 2025
A dozen women in sports bras and tight shorts stood behind a U-shaped counter at an underground bar in a busy Tokyo neighbourhood, chiselled frames on full display
November 12, 2025
Rates of high blood pressure in children have nearly doubled in 20 years
November 12, 2025
A group of 17 transgender members of the Air Force are suing the U.S. government over what they say is the military’s unlawful revocation of their early retirement pensions and benefits
November 12, 2025
U.S. Catholic bishops have voted to make official a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender patients at Catholic hospitals
November 12, 2025
Edgewell Personal Care has agreed to sell its North American feminine care business, which includes the likes of Stayfree sanitary napkins, to Swedish health and hygiene firm Essity for $
November 12, 2025
Researchers are reporting two promising approaches to counteract malaria's growing drug resistance
November 12, 2025
US State Department warns Americans in Japan: Watch out for bears
November 12, 2025
Vehicle partially hangs from parking garage after crashing into barrier
November 12, 2025
Los Angeles Clippers guard Bradley Beal is out for the season due to a hip fracture
November 12, 2025
China agreed on a plan to stop fentanyl-related chemicals as part of its deal with the Trump administration to crack down on the lethal opioid, FBI Director Kash Patel
November 12, 2025
'It changed me': Inmates help train puppies to help veterans with PTSD, other disabilities
November 12, 2025
The White House on Wednesday declined to provide specific details of medical images that doctors took of President Donald Trump's body during a physical a month ago, but said the
November 12, 2025
As United Nation climate talks get underway in Belem, a different kind of conference is kicking off: the People’s Summit, a gathering of activists, organizers, environmentalists and Indigenous groups from around the world
November 12, 2025
Vice President JD Vance has praised Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for questioning established science and embracing nontraditional voices in health care
November 12, 2025
With Jaxson Dart in concussion protocol, Jameis Winston is the New York Giants’ starting quarterback for their game Sunday against Green Bay
November 12, 2025
Library trades food for fines to help with food insecurity
November 12, 2025
U.N. humanitarian affairs and relief head Tom Fletcher has told The Associated Press that the situation is getting “horrific for civilians” in Sudan
November 12, 2025
Amazon.com was sued on Wednesday in a proposed class action saying the retailer subjects thousands of warehouse employees with disabilities to a "punitive"
November 12, 2025
When Novo Nordisk CEO Mike Doustdar learned in late September that Metsera had accepted a $7.3 billion rival bid from Pfizer, he was not
November 12, 2025
A timeline of 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard’s disappearance and her mother’s arrest
November 12, 2025
US health leaders hailed the benefits of hormone therapy for menopause. Doctors are pushing for balance
November 12, 2025
A former Connecticut police officer has pleaded guilty to mistreating prisoner Richard “Randy” Cox after he was paralyzed in a police van
November 12, 2025
Director Lynne Ramsay says we’re getting ‘Die My Love’ all wrong
November 12, 2025
A new AP-NORC poll finds U.S. adults’ opinions of how President Donald Trump is managing the federal government have dropped sharply since early in his second term, highlighting the risks posed by the government shutdown and his efforts to reshape the federal workforce
November 12, 2025
Denver turns asphalt into gardens to reduce flooding and reinvest in neighborhoods
November 12, 2025
Major milestone: Two WWII centenarians celebrate birthdays and Veterans Day this month
November 12, 2025
The wild form of the virus behind polio has been detected in wastewater sampling in Germany, the nation's main public health body told Reuters on
November 12, 2025
Man running 150 miles across state to support firefighters
November 12, 2025
Live skunk caught at harbor
November 12, 2025
Teen 'serial rapist' sentenced to 35 years in prison
November 12, 2025
Sleep center who secretly recorded videos of people in the bathroom and shower to be sentenced
November 12, 2025
SF Muni operator appears to fall asleep while speeding 50 mph through curve, jolting passengers
November 12, 2025
Kazakhstan follows Russia in banning ‘LGBTQ propaganda’
November 12, 2025
A passenger bus has fallen into a deep ravine in southern Peru, killing at least 37 people and injuring 13 more
November 12, 2025
The U.S.
November 12, 2025
Bundled in layers of clothing and clutching her cane inside an evacuation van, 84-year-old Polina Plyushchii said the threat of drones and other weapons had made it too
November 12, 2025
Sea otter pup and mom reunited
November 12, 2025
At least 27 people sickened and 6 dead in latest US listeria outbreak. What you should know
November 12, 2025
Longtime thoroughbred trainer Dale Romans has entered the Kentucky campaign to succeed retiring Republican Mitch McConnell in the U.S. Senate
November 12, 2025
The federal government shutdown has created delays in some states when it comes to the federal program that helps millions of families heat and cool their homes
November 12, 2025
Video shows alligator slinking back into Charles River in Boston
November 12, 2025
More than 80 organizations that provide health care for women all over the world received grants Wednesday totaling $250 million from Melinda French Gates after a year-long application process
November 12, 2025
The number of people diagnosed with tuberculosis worldwide rose again last year, eclipsing 2023's record total
November 12, 2025
Millions of Americans rely on this network of federally funded health clinics for their primary care.
November 12, 2025
From extreme heat to mosquito-borne illnesses, climate change is making people sicker and more vulnerable to disease. Health scientists explain what individuals and governments can do about it.
November 12, 2025
A psychology team distills the 6 principles of ‘consumer wisdom’: a set of habits that promotes well-being by aligning our values and behaviors.
November 12, 2025
Scientists across all fields make various types of claims about their innovations. Validity tests check whether they deliver on what they promise.
November 12, 2025
LONDON -British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Wednesday that any attack on members of his cabinet was "completely unacceptable", suggesting he was not behind newspaper reports that his allies
November 12, 2025
Fourteen-year-old Mohammed Wael Helles has been waiting for surgery on a serious spinal injury caused by an Israeli airstrike for nearly two months, one of
November 12, 2025
Iran is grappling with its worst water crisis in decades, with officials warning that Tehran — a city of more than 10 million — may soon be uninhabitable if the
November 12, 2025
A federal appeals court has heard arguments about a spending law that stopped Medicaid reimbursements for Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion provider
November 12, 2025
Some small grocery stores and neighborhood convenience stores are eager for the U.S. government shutdown to end and for their customers to start receiving federal food aid again
November 12, 2025
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer distanced himself on Wednesday from a briefing by unnamed allies that he would fight any leadership bid,
November 12, 2025
Millions more people risk famine in at least a dozen crisis spots around the world, including Sudan and Gaza, two U.N. agencies warned on Wednesday, appealing for funds to address a
November 12, 2025
When Natalia Lipei pulls up her sleeve, the 66-year-old Ukrainian pensioner reveals a colourful tattoo: a winged sword, symbolising the air-assault unit her son Viktor served in before
November 12, 2025
A seismic shift in computing is on the horizon (and it’s not AI)
November 12, 2025
FAA workers grapple with possible shutdown deal as officials try to navigate upcoming holiday travel rush
November 12, 2025
A rare explosion in Pakistan’s capital city of Islamabad has left 12 people dead and 20 injured, according to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences Hospital.
November 11, 2025
Afghanistan's economic recovery is buckling as nine in 10 households are forced to skip meals, sell belongings or take on debt to survive, the United Nations said on
November 12, 2025
Paris Jackson reveals she has a perforated septum: ‘Don’t do drugs kids’
November 12, 2025
Israel’s longest war is leaving a trail of traumatized soldiers in its wake
November 12, 2025
Jack Schlossberg, John F. Kennedy’s grandson, running for US House seat
November 12, 2025
Chinese authorities have announced measures to improve the mental health of primary and secondary school students by reducing academic pressure, cutting screen time and mandating
November 12, 2025
What’s in the bill to reopen the federal government?
November 12, 2025
The Supreme Court has extended an order blocking full SNAP payments amid signals that the government shutdown could soon end and food aid payments resume
November 11, 2025
Husband and wife charged in drug ring that allegedly took EBT for drugs
November 11, 2025
ByHeart recalls all of its baby formula in the US amid infant botulism outbreak investigation
November 11, 2025
The U.S.
November 11, 2025
Supreme Court keeps full SNAP payments on hold with short term order
November 11, 2025
The Supreme Court has extended an order blocking full SNAP payments
November 11, 2025
Longtime FDA oncology leader named agency’s top drug regulator
November 11, 2025
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer led his caucus and the country into a record-breaking government shutdown and voted against reopening when some of his members defected
November 11, 2025
‘She was a force for good’: Parents remember KU student killed in hit-and-run crash
November 11, 2025
Detainees at the largest U.S. migrant detention camp endure foul-tasting drinking water, rotten food and inadequate healthcare, according to a U.S. congresswoman who called
November 11, 2025
The U.S.
November 11, 2025
The Food and Drug Administration has named a longtime regulator of cancer medications to lead the agency’s drug center
November 11, 2025
Michael Ray Richardson, a versatile guard who was banned from the NBA for violating its drug policy in the 1980s, has died
November 11, 2025
A Virginia transportation security officer is accusing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security of sex discrimination over a policy barring transgender officers from performing security pat-downs
November 11, 2025
UNICEF said on Tuesday essential items including syringes to vaccinate children and bottles for baby formula are being denied entry into Gaza by Israel,
November 11, 2025
A small band of Senate Democrats voted with Republicans on Monday night to approve a funding measure to reopen the federal government — without securing their party’s demand to guarantee an extension of enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies, which help millions of Americans afford insurance.
November 11, 2025
Man encourages organ donation after helping save 9-year-old boy's life. "Give a piece of yourself"
November 11, 2025
Donald Trump really, really doesn’t like the NFL’s new kickoff format
November 11, 2025
A new directive by President Donald Trump’s administration could make it more difficult for foreigners to visit or live in the United States if they have certain medical conditions such as diabetes or obesity or lack the economic resources and assets to support themselves
November 11, 2025
For Anthony DeSousa, the owner of two pizza shops in Estes Park and Longmont, Colorado, feeding the hungry is personal.
November 11, 2025
King Mustangs' mascot Anthony Lopez bridges gap between autism and school spirit
November 11, 2025
President Donald Trump has pardoned the husband of Republican congresswoman Diana Harshbarger of Tennessee
November 11, 2025
How couples can ‘snore-proof’ their sexual relationship
November 11, 2025
A coalition of retired military nurses and others is pushing to award the Congressional Gold Medal to World War II nurses
November 11, 2025
The Senate sent a funding bill to the House. Here’s what has to happen next to reopen the government
November 10, 2025
Baby formula manufacturer ByHeart recalled all of its products sold nationwide Tuesday
November 11, 2025
Britain on Tuesday slashed by 15% its contribution to a global initiative to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, with an 850-million-pound ($1.14 billion) pledge, the
November 11, 2025
Police officer delivers baby during traffic stop with brother's help over radio
November 11, 2025
South Carolina's highest court has refused to stop Friday's execution of a man who killed three people over five days and left taunting messages for police in one victim's blood
November 11, 2025
Researchers in South Africa have launched clinical trials for the first vaccine developed entirely in the country
November 11, 2025
Politicians get blamed for government shutdowns. But does the fault lie also with citizens, who are more invested in punishing partisan rivals than in demanding competent government?
November 10, 2025
Veteran, who struggled with mental health, gifted free furnace
November 11, 2025
Rare rabbits, 60 chickens among the animals found living in horrendous conditions in home, police say
November 11, 2025
Photojournalist receiving kidney donation from co-worker
November 11, 2025
Down syndrome results in changes to the structure and function of neural circuits in the brain. Delivering a specific protein to neurons could reverse these changes.
November 11, 2025
Everyday people are improvising stopgap efforts to support their communities through the longest government shutdown in U.S. history
November 11, 2025
Buying a gift for a loved one with cancer? Here’s why you should skip the fuzzy socks and give them meals or help with laundry instead
Babies as young as 7 months now have access to ‘transformative’ cochlear implants
What boycotting looks like 70 years after the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Kim Cattrall, ‘Sex and the City’ star, marries in small London ceremony
Around the world, refugees are shut out of the US by Trump's new policies
One of Istanbul’s most extraordinary buildings was left to rot for decades. Now it’s been brought back to life
Lifeguards rescue dog swept out to sea by rip current off San Diego coast
Netflix to acquire Warner Bros. studio and streaming business for $72 billion