The companies said Tuesday that they will stick to the highest ethical and scientific standards in testing and manufacturing and will make the well-being of those getting vaccinated their top priority.

Mounting pressure to approve the contraceptive has been built by sexual health advocates for years.

The vaccine, which is administered as a single-dose injection, will help to prevent EVD caused by Zaire ebolavirus in patients aged 18 years and older, the regulator said in a statement.

An important medication for Parkinson's will not be available until July 2020. Larry Gifford discusses why.

Another presidential advisory committee appears to be breaking up.

President Donald Trump’s turnabout on the violence in Charlottesville has rocked his administration, leading to rising speculation that some top officials may be looking for a way out.

Since Saturday, seven CEOs resigned from the president's Manufacturing Jobs Initiative panel after Trump blamed both sides for the weekend violence in Charlottesville, Va.

In a statement, the boss of one the America’s largest pharmaceutical companies, resigned from Trump’s council, citing "a responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and extremism."

Drugmaker Merck & Co. has granted a free license allowing one of its HIV medicines to be made and sold inexpensively for use in young children in poor countries hard hit by the AIDS virus.

Drugmaker Merck & Co. said that it will advance a new cancer drug into bigger patient tests, after promising findings in an early study.