Pharmaceutical

The improvements include stricter limits on financial conflicts of interest for committee members, ...

It is one of the most audacious promises in a campaign that has been thick with them.

But it has fallen to last place among those countries in preventing deaths through use of timely and effective medical care...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced that it is revising the way it communicates to drug companies when a marketing application cannot be approved as submitted.

Collaborative effort by FDA and EMEA expected to yield additional safety data

Two major court victories for Merck on Thursday pushed the litigation over the painkiller Vioxx closer to conclusion...

The new system, called the Sentinel Initiative, will allow officials from the Food and Drug Administration for the first time to monitor almost immediately how drugs affect health...

TRENTON, N.J. — For the first time, it appears that more than half of all insured Americans are taking prescription medicines regularly for chronic health problems, a study shows.

...is among a growing band of researchers trying to redefine how diseases are classified — by looking not at their symptoms or physiological measurements, but at their genetic underpinnings.