(NewsNation) — The World Health Organization has added drugs intended to treat diabetes to its essential medicines list in hopes the classification will improve global access to the costly drugs. The ...

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 World Health Organization has updated its Model Lists of Essential Medicines and Essential Medicines for Children, adding drugs for cancer, diabetes, obesity and other conditions. Among the ...

The World Health Organization added Novo Nordisk A/S’s Ozempic and Eli Lilly and Co.’s Mounjaro to its list of essential medicines, a step that may expand access to the drugs around the world. The ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday established a "green list" import alert to help stop potentially dangerous GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide-1) active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) from ...

One of the world’s most sought-after drugs has officially become a vital medication. The World Health Organization has just added semaglutide—the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy—to its list of ...

Pembrolizumab was added to the Model List of Essential Medicines for several metastatic cancers, with atezolizumab and cemiplimab listed as alternatives for metastatic non-small cell lung cancer.

LONDON (Reuters) -The World Health Organization has added GLP-1 drugs to treat diabetes to its essential medicines list alongside treatments for cystic fibrosis and cancer, and said it hopes this will ...