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Consumer advocates and people harmed by respiratory medications mixed by compounding pharmacy labs told a bipartisan group of lawmakers in Washington on Wednesday that it's time to crack down on medications being made from scratch.
Israel-based Taro Pharmaceutical has received tentative approval from the U.S. FDA for its abbreviated new drug applications (ANDA) for carvedilol tablets.
Senior citizens who were administered Merck's arthritis medication Vioxx faced the highest risk of heart attack during their first two weeks on the drug, according to a study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
A German study presented at the annual meeting of the European Headache Federation demonstrated that chronic migraine sufferers treated preventively with Topamax (topiramate) experienced fewer migraine-related days per month than those treated with placebo.
Indian drugmaker Panacea Biotech has announced a collaboration with the Netherlands Vaccine Institute-- part of the country's Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport -- for supply of bulk inactivated polio vaccines.
Genzyme Pharmaceuticals, a business unit of Genzyme Corporation, and Brookwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc., have announced a broad collaboration to develop drug delivery solutions, with an initial focus on peptide delivery.
Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp) , a national leader in pharmacogenetic testing, today announced that it has begun offering a personalized drug response interpretation service for cytochrome P450 (CYP450) testing called Signature Genetics to complement its expanding menu of genetic tests for CYP450 mutations.
After failing to reverse falling sales at its Pharmaceutical Fine Chemicals (PFC) division, Clariant has decided to sell the unit to private equity firm Towerbrook for around SFr110m (⁈70m).