AstraZeneca Plc has been studying options including a potential listing of its newly-created vaccines division as it seeks ways to boost returns for investors, people with knowledge of the matter said.

Gilead Sciences Inc. said it was recalling two lots of its Covid-19 drug remdesivir in the U.S. after receiving a complaint about glass particles in the vials that was confirmed by a company investigation.

A federal appeals court in Cincinnati rejected the Biden administration’s request to move up deadlines in the legal challenge to its emergency shot-or-test rule that would accelerate consideration of lifting an order that froze the rule.

President Joe Biden’s power to mandate Covid-19 vaccinations for federal contractors was under attack in two federal courtrooms Friday, with a pair of judges appointed by the Trump administration considering whether to up the tally of states where the measure is blocked.

Molecular Covid-19 tests developed by Thermo Fisher Scientific, Alphabet Inc.‘s Verily Life Sciences, and nearly two dozen other companies may be able to detect the omicron variant, the Food and Drug Administration announced Friday.

Pennant Group Inc., which runs more than 50 assisted living facilities nationwide, won its bid to force an employee to individually arbitrate claims that she was forced to work through lunch breaks and a heart attack, a federal judge in Wisconsin ruled.