Drug News

An experimental AIDS vaccine that appears to be the first to protect people was mired for years in controversy, and… »   

Health insurers accused the U.S. Medicare agency on Tuesday of political interference in a battle over whether the industry can… »   

The United States is prepared to make 10 percent of its H1N1 vaccine supply available to other countries through the… »   

Merck & Co’s cervical cancer vaccine is safe and effective for preventing genital warts in males ages 9 to 26,… »   

Pfizer Inc agreed on Wednesday to plead guilty to a criminal charge relating to promotions of its now-withdrawn Bextra… »   

U.S. officials should help drug companies speed up the supply of swine flu drugs and vaccines, making at least some… »   

Healthy patients who get H1N1 swine flu without suffering complications do not need to be treated with antivirals like Tamiflu,… »   

A new kind of influenza vaccine works against the new swine flu virus in animals, Novavax Inc reported on Tuesday.… »   

U.S. officials on Monday said they had slashed their estimate of how many swine flu vaccine doses will be… »   

A small band of protesters holding aloft a banner disrupted a large HIV/AIDS conference in Indonesia on Wednesday to demand… »   

The development of new vaccines to combat H1N1 swine flu is on schedule and first regulatory approvals are possible in… »   

This is an entertaining book, written as if Shorter had half an eye on a screenplay. The plot centres on… »   

The U.S. government has taken delivery of 20 million doses of a vaccine against the new pandemic H1N1 swine… »   

Big international pharmaceutical firms doing business in the Philippines have offered to lower prices of dozens of best-selling drugs… »   

Pfizer Inc, the world’s largest drugmaker, has begun developing treatments for autism, its head of research and development said… »