drug companies

Opioid settlements with companies like Purdue Pharma, Walmart, and Johnson & Johnson have led to headline-grabbing multibillion-dollar payouts. But most of the windfall is flowing to state and local governments, not directly to victims of the crisis.

Nine cities and counties from across Michigan are taking drug companies to court. From the Upper Peninsula to Detroit, they are trying to recover many…

In 1960, the first oral contraceptive was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as contraception. That drug, Enovid, changed the course of...