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Western Europeans spend an estimated 10.5 billion euros ($14.3 billion) a year on illicitly sourced medicines, many of them counterfeit,… »   

The commonly used diabetes drug metformin stinks, literally, and this may explain why many patients stop taking it, U.S. doctors… »   

A medication that allows hay fever sufferers to get allergy shots in the form of a pill seems to have… »   

West Africans are consuming more of the drugs trafficked between South America and Europe, raising the spectre of rising… »   

A new study strengthens evidence that the once widely advertised weight-loss supplement Hydroxycut caused serious liver damage in some users.… »   

Genzyme Corp said on Thursday its experimental pill to treat Gaucher disease was effective in several ways. It strengthened bone,… »   

Drugmakers are starting to get into bed with information technology companies as they struggle to prove the value of their… »   

A single large infusion of the Gilead Sciences drug AmBisome cured nearly every case of the deadly parasitic infection… »   

Multidrug resistant bacteria such as Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) pose a major problem for patients, doctors, and the pharmaceutical industry.… »   

For years, doctors have warned patients to finish their antibiotic prescriptions or risk a renewed infection by a “superbug” that… »