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The patients died of a deadly brain infection known as PML, and 24 cases of the disease have been diagnosed since Tysabri was reintroduced to the market in 2006, the European Medicines Agency told...
The Alabama Supreme Court has thrown out jury decisions awarding the state more than $274 million from three pharmaceutical companies - AstraZeneca, Novartis and GlaxoSmithKline - that had been...
Questions over undisclosed study results, as it turns out, aren’t confined to companies that make medicines. An interesting piece in The Wall Street Journal reports that researchers from the U.S. Army and Thailand didn’t publicly disclose...
Could this be considered an unapproved use? A 60-year-old Afghan tribal chief with four younger wives was given a few of the Pfizer impotence pills by a CIA officer, who returned a few days later...
We apologize for the belated greetings - we know Hanukah began a few nights ago and that Christmas Eve is well under way. But we have had a scattered day and were actually to begin our own...
Prescriptions for both of Merck’s cholesterol pills - Vytorin and Zetia - fell last week, while scrips for Abbott Labs’ Niaspan rose following the results of the widely reported Arbiter clinical trial, according to SDI, a market research firm, Dow...
As the debate over health care reform turns to competing House and Senate bills, the industry trade group is running this ad in which seniors are asked to call Joe Lieberman, the independent US Senator from Connecticut, and urge him to support health...
That’s what workers at Pfizer’s Pearl River, NY, are concerned about. A state law requires employers with 50 or more workers to give both employees and the state 90 days’ notice if they plan to lay off either at least 25 people and 33 percent of their...
Why? There are concerns that the guidelines, which are based, in part, on work by a Harvard University researcher, may have been undermined due to his financial ties to drugmakers, according to The Daily Telegraph.
A Congressional investigation...
The price Medicaid paid for the bloodthinner rose 12 percent “immediately” after direct-to-consumer ads began in 2001, and those higher costs added $207 million to Medicaid spending in 27 states during the next four years, even as prescriptions...
