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Schering-Plough’s Asmanex Twisthaler, an inhaled steroid designed to prevent asthma attacks, has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug… »   

New research finds that the first three months after heart patients stop taking the clot-preventing drug Plavix are the… »   

Excessive sedation is a “serious safety concern” with an experimental, long-acting form of Eli Lilly and Co’s blockbuster Zyprexa schizophrenia… »   

Doctors in England are writing over a million obesity drug prescriptions a year, eight times more than in 1999, health… »   

Weeks before a damaging report on the diabetes drug Avandia (rosiglitazone) was to appear in The New England Journal of… »   

A new study published in the February 2008 print edition of The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) describes a scientific advance… »   

Administering flu vaccines under the tongue may be more effective and offer more protection than injecting or inhaling the drug,… »   

Companies can fire employees who use marijuana for medical reasons even if California law allows such use because federal law… »   

Celebrex, an arthritis drug in the same class as the recalled painkiller Vioxx, caused irregular heartbeats in fruit flies and… »   

Regulators said Friday they would review whether to take action over Merck & Co Inc’s and Schering-Plough Corp’s popular cholesterol… »