In November 2025, Statistics Canada reported that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) was up about 2.2% year‑over‑year, driven by higher grocery and other household prices. Grocery prices alone rose almost 4.7%…
Read more Real money hacks to use when prices feel out of control – MoneySenseU.S. President Donald Trump announced Friday that nine drugmakers have agreed to lower the cost of their prescription drugs in the U.S. Pharmaceutical companies Amgen, Bristol Myers Squibb,…
Read more Trump announces lower drug price deals with 9 pharmaceutical companiesNEW YORK — Pharmaceutical companies have agreed to slash the Medicare prices for 15 prescription drugs after months of negotiations, reductions that are expected to produce billions in…
Read more Trump administration says lower prices for 15 Medicare drugs will save taxpayers billionsNEW YORK (AP) — Pharmaceutical companies have agreed to slash the Medicare prices for 15 prescription drugs after months of negotiations, reductions that are expected to produce billions…
Read more Trump Administration Says Lower Prices for 15 Medicare Drugs Will Save Taxpayers BillionsWASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Food and Drug Administration’s drug center abruptly resigned Sunday after federal officials began reviewing “serious concerns about his personal conduct,” according…
Read more FDA’s Top Drug Regulator Resigns After Federal Officials Probe ‘Serious Concerns’Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in file photo at the White House with President Trump. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) WASHINGTON, DC – The White House…
Read more Kennedy Announces New Cost-Saving Drug Plan – KXLThe health care giant said Tuesday that it will separate its orthopedics business into a standalone company known as DePuy Synthes. The move leaves J&J focused on its…
Read more J&J Lays Out Plan to Splinter Orthopedics Business Into Separate CompanyWASHINGTON (AP) — AstraZeneca on Friday became the second major pharmaceutical manufacturer to announce it had agreed to lower the cost of prescription drugs for Medicaid under a…
Read more AstraZeneca Agrees to Lower Drug Prices for Medicaid Under Trump Administration DealBy Lori Solomon HealthDay ReporterTHURSDAY, Oct. 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Tremfya (guselkumab) for the treatment of plaque psoriasis and…
Read more FDA Approves Tremfya for Pediatric Plaque Psoriasis, Active Psoriatic ArthritisWASHINGTON — Drugmaker Pfizer has agreed to lower drug costs under a deal struck with the Trump administration, President Donald Trump said Tuesday, as he promised similar deals…
Read more Pfizer agrees to lower prescription drug costs for Medicaid in a deal with TrumpWASHINGTON — Naturepedic, a mattress and furniture company based outside Cleveland, has been planning to introduce an upscale upholstered headboard late this year or early in 2026. But…
Read more Trump finds new trade targets — pharmaceuticals, kitchen cabinets and heavy trucksShares of some big drugmakers jumped ahead of broader indexes Friday as Wall Street started sorting out President Donald Trump’s latest tariff announcement. The president said late Thursday…
Read more Big pharma stocks rise as Street reacts to latest presidential tariff planDays after he sent letters instructing top pharmaceutical manufacturers to use a “most favored nation” pricing model for prescription drugs, President Donald Trump told reporters on Sunday that…
Read more FACT FOCUS: Trump says he’s cut drug prices by up to 1,500%. That’s not possibleState-level marijuana legalization is associated with declines in prescription drug spending, according to data published last week in the journal Health Economics. Researchers affiliated with Bowling Green State…
Read more Legalization Associated With Declines in Prescription Drug ExpendituresCVS pharmacy clerks and technicians are entering their fourth day of a strike Monday after walking off the job and onto picket lines at four locations in Los…
Read more Striking CVS pharmacy workers plan to picket at 7 stores in LA, Orange CountyThinner benefits and coverage changes await many older Americans shopping for health insurance this fall. That’s if their plan is even still available in 2025. More than a…
Read more Medicare Advantage shopping season arrives with a dose of confusion and some political implicationsCoco loved being the life of the party — cracking jokes, doing pranks and making people laugh, her mom, Julianna Arnold, recalled recently. “Her favorite pastime was fashion,”…
Read more How social media became a storefront for deadly fake pillsVice President Kamala Harris unveiled her economic agenda in a speech Friday in Raleigh, North Carolina. The Democratic presidential nominee laid out plans including a proposal for a…
Read more FACT FOCUS: A look at Harris’ economic agendaSACRAMENTO, Calif. — Forced labor, same-sex marriage and shoplifting are among the 10 statewide ballot measures that California voters are set to consider in November. The California secretary…
Read more Forced labor, same-sex marriage, shoplifting on the ballot in California this yearHave you ever grabbed a bottle of Tylenol from your medicine cabinet, discovered that it expired two years ago and wondered whether you can still take it? You…
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