Pharmaceutical

Pfizer-Wyeth Merger Tentatively Approved By FTC

AFP | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business


NEW YORK (AFP) -- US regulators gave tentative approval Wednesday to a deal allowing Pfizer to buy pharmaceutical Wyeth, boosting the size of the worl...

Democrats Sell Out on Healthcare

Mike Papantonio | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics


Mike Papantonio

Drug companies showed a profit of 80 billion dollars last year while the health care industry collected 13 billion in profits. Life is good, and they are spreading all those billions around to the Democrats.

Carl Icahn Gets Bullish On Biotech

Barron's | Teresa Rivas | Posted 03.05.2009 | Business


WHILE THE ECONOMY HAS FLOUNDERED, biotechnology companies have turned in a relatively healthy performance, even seeing gains in the last year while th...

Healthcare Abducted

Dr. Jeffrey McCombs | Posted 11.24.2008 | Living


Dr. Jeffrey McCombs

Mainstream healthcare in America has been abducted by the pharmaceutical and insurance companies. As profits have moved to the center stage, patient c...