The U.S. Supreme Court has given a boost to a challenge brought by 21 pharmaceutical and medical equipment companies in a lawsuit accusing them of helping to fund terrorism that killed or injured hundreds of American troops and civilians in Iraq.

Opioid drug giant Mallinckrodt, selling more than Purdue Pharma in the United States, has been forced by the courts to publish more than 1.3 million internal documents. These reveal a carefully coordinated effort to shape medical attitudes toward pain medicine.

The U.S. state of Kansas has sued Pfizer, accusing the company of misleading the public about its COVID-19 vaccine by hiding risks while making false claims about its effectiveness.

GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer and other drugmakers must face trials in the State court in Delaware after a judge found evidence backing up claims the companies’ former Zantac heartburn drug causes cancer to be legitimate.

Many adults with diabetes and the associated complication of peripheral neuropathy, which can be painful as well as harmful, are often prescribed drugs at doses and for durations that could impose an increased risk of cognitive impairment.

New figures suggest nearly 500,000 antidepressant prescriptions are being given to children in the UK each year, with only one in four having visited a child psychiatrist before they were given the pills.

An American woman who took part in the US clinical trial of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is suing the company, claiming it left her “permanently disabled.”

Pharmaceutical companies knowingly sold a treatment infected with HIV to the UK’s National Health Service, The Telegraph has revealed.