The pharmaceutical industry that long has benefited from Sen. Orrin G. Hatch´s legislative efforts has directed large sums of money to a charity he h...
New York Times | NATASHA SINGER and DUFF WILSON | Posted 03.28.2009 | Business
Sports fans have fantasy baseball. Drug industry analysts have fantasy mergers. In the pharmaceutical version of the game, analysts use balance she...
James Floyd, M.D. | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics
Gupta downplays safety risks in treatments, and was criticized for his reporting on Vioxx, a pain medication that was withdrawn from the market in 2004 because it causes heart attacks.
Sunil Chacko | Posted 02.28.2009 | Politics
For dying patients with no therapy that is working, compassionate use programs exist to provide drugs in phase II or III clinical trials when the patient was ineligible to participate in the trial.
AP | LINDA A. JOHNSON | Posted 02.27.2009 | Business
TRENTON, N.J. — Pfizer Inc., the world's largest drugmaker, said Monday it is buying rival Wyeth for $68 billion in a deal that will quickly boo...
Wall Street Journal | MATTHEW KARNITSCHNIG and JONATHAN D. ROCKOFF | Posted 02.23.2009 | Business
Pfizer Inc. is in talks to acquire rival drug maker Wyeth in a deal that could be valued at more than $60 billion, said people familiar with the matte...
Jeanne Lenzer and Shannon Brownlee | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics
The FDA needs to admit that it is currently powerless over the industry it is supposed to be regulating; it has let Big Pharma take over and become dependent on drug company money.
AP | Posted 11.22.2008 | Chicago
(AP) -- Attorney General Lisa Madigan says Illinois will receive $3 million from a $60 million settlement with Pfizer over the marketing of the drug m...
AP | LINDA A. JOHNSON | Posted 11.22.2008 | Business
TRENTON, N.J. — Drugmaker Merck & Co. said Wednesday it will slash 7,200 jobs as part of a new restructuring program that comes as its third-qua...
AP | LINDA A. JOHNSON | Posted 11.17.2008 | Business
TRENTON, N.J. — Drug giant Pfizer Inc. has reached an $894 million deal to settle the bulk of the lawsuits over its withdrawn pain reliever Bext...
Holly Robinson Peete | Posted 11.14.2008 | Living
By using vaccines, we've been able to eradicate such diseases as smallpox, polio and measles. But the mercury used for decades as a preservative in the vaccinations is poison, pure and simple.
AP | LINDA A. JOHNSON | Posted 10.12.2008 | Business
TRENTON, N.J. — Just about every segment of the medical community is piling on the pharmaceutical industry these days, accusing drugmakers of de...
DealBook | Posted 08.12.2008 | Business
ImClone Systems, the maker of the anti-cancer drug Erbitux, said on Monday that while it is studying a $4.5 billion takeover bid from Bristol-Myers Sq...
New York Times | Andrew Pollack | Posted 08.09.2008 | Business
It was one of the most celebrated insider-trading scandals of the last decade, sending Martha Stewart and her Merrill Lynch stock broker to prison, al...
Adam Hanft | Posted 07.05.2008 | Living
California is trying to stop companies from marketing genetic testing to state residents. But accurate genetic understanding could have enormously beneficial implications for individuals.
ABC News | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics
Responding to an ABC News/Washington Times investigation, the Veterans Administration plans to inform 32,000 veterans that they are using a drug linke...
New York TImes | Stephanie Saul | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Under criticism that its ads are misleading, Pfizer said Monday that it would cancel a long-running advertising campaign using the artificial heart pi...
Newsweek | Karen Springen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
When it comes to teens and drug abuse, prescription medications (or "pharmies") are now second only to marijuana in popularity. Overall, teen abuse of...
Wall Street Journal | HEATHER WON TESORIERO | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
The pharmaceutical industry has been a frequent target in the current presidential campaign, but that hasn't stopped it from continuing to aggressivel...
The New York Times | Judith Warner | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
This storyline persists despite the fact that government research has repeatedly shown that most adults and children with mental health issues don't g...
New York Magazine | Derek de Koff | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
Things were looking good. My doctor had gone through the test results and told me I was perfectly healthy--except my breathing was a little shallow. T...
AP | LINDA A. JOHNSON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
TRENTON, N.J. — In one of the biggest U.S. health care fraud settlements ever, Merck & Co. will pay $671 million to settle claims it overcharged...
New York Times | AKE HOOKER and WALT BOGDANICH | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
A huge state-owned Chinese pharmaceutical company that exports to dozens of countries, including the United States, is at the center of a nationwide d...
MacRumorsLive | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
9:38 am Touchstone, Miramax, MGM, Lionsgate, Newline, FOx, WB, Disney, Paramount, Universal, Sony all on board 9:37 am iTunes Movie Rentals 9:36 am 12...
AP | DAMIAN J. TROISE | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
A patent dispute over the heartburn drug Protonix escalated Monday when Wyeth said it will sue to recover lost profits from sales of Teva Pharmaceutic...
Washington Times | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics