SAN DIEGO — Since Herceptin’s approval in 1998, breast cancer has been reshaped from a near-term death sentence into — in many cases — a chronic disease. Now, researchers hope daraxonrasib from Revolution Medicines will launch the same …

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The Senate GOP doctors who will question RFK Jr.

There are four Republican doctors on two of the Senate committees at which health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will testify this week. Two have been critical of Kennedy’s anti-vaccine policies, and we’ll be watching how they question the secretary, especially because the Republican party is trying its best to avoid talking about vaccines in the lead-up to the midterm elections.

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A judge is expected to sentence OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma to forfeit $225 million to the Justice Department on Tuesday, clearing the way for the company to finalize a settlement of thousands of lawsuits it faces over its role in the opioid crisis.

The penalty was agreed to in a 2020 pact to resolve federal civil and criminal probes it was facing. If the judge signs off, other penalties will not be collected in return for Purdue settling the other lawsuits.

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