Drug News

U.S. authorities increased inspections of foreign drug plants last year but still checked only a fraction of sites that supply… »   

Switzerland’s Novartis AG is cutting prices for its malaria drug Coartem by a fifth to improve access to treatment, especially… »   

Drug giant Merck has been caught red-handed in a scheme to deceive the FDA and the public over the integrity… »   

Inhaled insulin may be a debacle that pharmaceutical companies want to put behind them as quickly as possible, but many… »   

U.S. lawmakers should rein in government subsidies for a fast-growing and lucrative part of the Medicare health insurance program for… »   

Scientists at the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute have discovered a novel signaling pathway between three organs – the gut,… »   

Beijing has given the go-ahead to a Chinese drug maker to begin large-scale production of a human bird flu… »   

New data about the controversial cholesterol fighter Vytorin failed to quell concerns that the drug might not be as good… »   

One of the world’s deadliest diseases, caused by the Ebola virus, may finally be preventable thanks to US and Canadian… »   

Researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center have shown that insulin has a previously unknown effect that plays a role in… »   

The mounting U.S. drug price crisis can be contained and eventually reversed by separating drug discovery from drug marketing and… »   

A California mother has sued drug maker Novartis AG in what the company believes to be the first proposed class… »   

Cancer patients from the Southeastern United States who are treated with the drug cetuximab, known commercially as Erbitux, are far… »   

U.S. health officials will ask an advisory panel whether they should withdraw the approval of Amgen Inc and Johnson &… »   

The state of Connecticut sued Eli Lilly and Co on Tuesday, accusing the drugmaker of illegally marketing and concealing serious… »