Total med-tech financings reached $8.54 billion in the first quarter (Q1) of 2026, reflecting a modest pullback from $9.33 billion in the same period of 2025 but remaining well above previous years. The Q1 2026 total exceeds the $6.45 billion recorded in Q1 2024 and $4.69 billion in Q1 2023, signaling continued recovery from the post-2021 downturn.

Don’t like a court order? Sidestep it. That seems to be the idea behind U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy’s latest changes to his renewal of the charter for the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).

After nearly a year of threats and promises of a global biopharma tariff of 25% to 500%, U.S. President Donald Trump finally delivered it. In the name of national security, he imposed a 100% sector tariff on prescription drugs and their associated ingredients beginning in about four months for large manufacturers and six months for smaller companies.