Pharmaceutical News

Shares of energy companies, insurers and hotel operators may see active trading Monday as ... Among other companies whose shares are expected to be active Monday are Apple Computer Inc.2.7

While legal woes continue to mount for the pharmaceutical industry over Vioxx, the Triangle's high concentration of drug-testing companies could benefit from the fallout.2.7

Washington -- For more than a year, federal drug officials have insisted that their repeated ... On Friday, the food and drug commissioner, Lester Crawford, announced that he would indefinitely postpone a ruling on Plan B, the morning-after pill made by Barr Laboratories.4

The government on Friday put off its long-awaited final decision on whether to sell emergency ... FDA says it's safe The drug's maker, Barr Pharmaceuticals, criticized the decision, questioning how the agency could acknowledge that scientific evidence supported nonprescription sales and yet not allow the sales to start.2.7

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US drug regulators put off for at least two months a decision on approving over-the-counter sale of a so-called "morning-after" birth control pill, Plan B. Plan B, levonorgestrel, is available to any woman by ...2.9

Drugmaker Mylan Laboratories Inc. said on Friday it has received tentative approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its generic version of anti-nausea drug Zofran.3.1

Federal drug regulators today again rejected an application to allow over-the-counter sales of the ... The pill's maker, Barr Labs, said in a statement that while the agency officials had agreed that studies proved that women 17 years of age and older could safely take the drug without a doctor's advice, they remained undecided on whether girls 16 ...2.7

Morepen Laboratories today said it had made 52 drug master file filings across 10 European countries for six products.2.7

Arizona Sen. John McCain blasted the pharmaceutical industry and criticized a Bush adminstration-backed Medicare prescription drug benefit during remarks to health care executives in Phoenix on Thursday.3.2

The attack, on Roche's global drug development director Eduard Holdener, follows the announcement of the closure of the Darley Oaks guinea pig farm in Newchurch, Staffs after a sustained campaign by ...2.7

California regulators named 39 new defendants Thursday in a lawsuit against U.S. pharmaceutical companies accused of inflating drug prices and costing state taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.5

DrugMax Inc. of Farmington, Conn., plans to open electronic pharmacy kiosks through a licensing agreement with Duane Reade Inc., an online pharmacy based in New York.2.7

The US company also declared at the same time that an investment of 50 million US dollars would be made in the coming few years for promoting over 4,000 types of household and personal care products in the ...2.7

The pharmaceutical industry's first ads are already out. They are part of a campaign that could exceed 72 million dollars.3.1

ISLAMABAD: National Pharma Bureau had conducted a seminar on the Affects of WTO on Pharmaceutical Industry in Pearl Continental Hotel Rawalpindi.2.7

The 379-bed healthcare facility, one of the largest in Alabama, will deploy McKesson's Horizon Clinicals suite along with the company's revenue cycle and resource management solutions.2.7

Orange County supervisors today are expected to raise concerns over, and possibly reject, a contract to manage $14 million in prescription-drug purchases that county staff has negotiated with Caremark.2.7

Gov. Brad Henry is undaunted by the failure of his drug reimportation program during the 2005 legislative session.2.7

At North Mississippi Medical Center, good care is good business. Putting in place guidelines and procedures that zero in on the factors that cause, or help avoid, complications and co-morbidity has achieved ...2.7

Snow swirled through this picturesque old university town late one afternoon in December as Peter Krammer flipped open his laptop to reveal a medical marvel.2.7

Cecilia Vella, executive, Federation of Industry The Malta Federation of Industry submitted the views of its members involved in the health sector on the impact of EU membership on the pharmaceutical industry ...2.7

The pharmaceutical industry is blasting a suggestion to regulate the sale of some popular cold medications to curb the problem of crystal meth.2.7

Drugs giant Shire Pharmaceuticals topped the list of blue-chip risers yesterday, surging 6.5pc on hopes a deal with drug maker Barr Laboratories is in the pipeline.3.1

Barr Pharmaceuticals said the Food and Drug Administration wants more information on an experimental oral contraceptive that reduces the number of periods in a woman's menstrual cycle to four from 13 per year.2.7

Mylan Laboratories Inc., headquartered in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, is a leading pharmaceutical company specializing in the development, manufacture and marketing of generic and branded pharmaceutical products.2

Pfizer Inc. pledged not to directly promote any new product to patients for at least six months after putting it on the market and to target only adult audiences when touting impotency treatment Viagra on TV.2.7

DrugMax Inc. said William L. LaGamba has resigned as the company's president and chief operating officer effective immediately.2.7

The growing global acceptance for Indian Pharmaceutical industry is reflected in steadily increasing exports from major pharmaceutical hubs in the country.2.7

Deerfield-based Walgreen Co., Aetna Inc. and MedImpact Healthcare Systems Inc. have agreed to a deal under which they will pass along drugmaker rebates and provide more pricing information to help clients cut ...4

Average monthly expenditures for direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertisements decreased in the first half of 2005, with pharmaceutical companies "uncertain and skittish about advertising" because of ...4.2