Pharmaceutical

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.

Only drug available in United States for irritable bowel syndrome with constipation

Drug and medical device companies should be banned from offering free food, gifts, travel and ghost-writing services to doctors,...

Less than a third of employers offer retiree health benefits, down from almost half in 1993, according to a survey

Employers and patients in corporate health plans are not the only ones affected by the soaring prices of specialty drugs. Enrollees in Medicare drug plans are also feeling the pressure.

CHICAGO — Commonly used incontinence drugs may cause memory problems in some older people, a study has found.