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The Trump administration is using newly announced 100% tariffs as leverage to push both large and small drugmakers into confidential pricing and manufacturing agreements.

Also, the burgeoning peptide craze is highlighting a trust gap in medicine, in which patients increasingly favor unproven treatments over well-established drugs.

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