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Children under 5 immunized with FluMist had 55 percent fewer cases of influenza compared with children who received the flu shot, according to a new study.
Teva Pharmaceutical reported $460 million in earnings for the fourth quarter of 2006, reflecting a 51 percent increase from the $305 million posted in the same period a year earlier.
The FTC will continue to pursue an anticompetitive case against Barr Laboratories following a federal district court ruling rejecting the generic firm’s motion to dismiss the case, agency sources said.
Concerned with Pfizer’s marketing of Viagra, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest AIDS healthcare provider in the U.S., has banned the company’s sales representatives from its facilities.
A newly signed executive order in Texas requiring pre-teen female students to be immunized against a sexually transmitted disease is drawing criticism from other state legislators who believe more public hearings are needed before the law goes into effect.
A recent article and editorial in the Annals of Family Medicine criticizing direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising prompted a strong rebuttal from industry groups.
Despite a 28 percent increase in profits and an 11 percent rise in sales, AstraZeneca will cut approximately 3,000 jobs to help with anticipated losses from generic competition, the company announced.
GE OEC Medical Systems, its parent company, General Electric (GE) — doing business as GE Healthcare — and two of GE’s top executives have signed an FDA consent decree of permanent injunction related to X-ray surgical imaging systems, the FDA said in a recent announcement.
Reintroduction of key legislation presented late last year that would establish a clear and scientifically sound pathway for the approval of follow-on biologics would save the federal government about $14 billion in Medicare costs over the next decade, according to a new report by the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA).