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Florida lawmakers on Friday approved a measure allowing state agency heads to randomly test employees for illegal drugs, sending the… »   

New research with monkeys sheds light on how the drug methylphenidate may affect learning and memory in children with attention… »   

Prescription drugs to treat some of the most common chronic diseases, such as high cholesterol and diabetes, may become available… »   

Treatment with the common diabetes drug metformin appears to prevent progression of coronary atherosclerosis in patients infected with HIV. In… »   

Japan’s Daiichi Sankyo Co said on Friday it will form a 50-50 joint venture with Britain’s GlaxoSmithKline PLC to bring… »   

An entire class of statin drugs will get new labels that alert the public to safety concerns, the Food and… »   

The kinase inhibitor ruxolitinib (Jakafi) alleviates spleen enlargement and other symptoms of the bone marrow disease myelofibrosis, but with a… »   

Fake versions of the multibillion-dollar cancer drug Avastin were purchased in Turkey before being traded by middlemen across the Middle… »   

Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc. said Monday that the Food and Drug Administration has accepted its marketing application for a progesterone gel… »   

Swiss drugmaker Roche said on Friday that fake versions of its cancer drug Avastin had been found in Syria in… »