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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… »   

A group working to develop a gel or cream women could use to protect themselves against the AIDS virus said… »   

Allergan Inc said on Monday that it received a subpoena from the U.S. Department of Justice investigating the promotion of… »   

A Nigerian court granted bail on Tuesday to a former executive of the local arm of pharmaceuticals firm Pfizer in… »   

A new drug that will soon enter clinical trials for treatment of malaria also appears to be 10 times more… »   

A new study of the multiple sclerosis drug Tysabri shows some patients developed the virus associated with a potentially deadly… »   

A deadlocked U.S. Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision against Pfizer Inc’s Warner-Lambert unit over withdrawn diabetes drug Rezulin… »   

Merck & Co Monday said more than 93 percent of the 47,000 people who allege the arthritis drug Vioxx caused… »   

Researchers have long searched for a novel cancer drug that activates a certain protein to kill tumor cells. But finding… »   

GlaxoSmithKline Plc’s new breast cancer drug Tykerb is to go head-to-head with Genentech Inc’s blockbuster Herceptin to see whether one… »   

The identification of two cellular receptors that likely contribute to the genesis of hormone-dependent breast cancer points the way to… »   

Medical device companies will come under scrutiny on Wednesday when a U.S. Senate committee probes financial payments to doctors, which… »