Edwards unveils plan to control drug advertising
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Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards on Sunday unveiled a plan to put controls on drug advertising, which he said were misleading patients and driving up health care costs.
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Democrat Barack Obama has a new ad in Iowa that seeks to distinguish him from his rivals on curbing lobbyists, improving health care and ending the war in Iraq while casting voters as the agents of change. The one-minute ad begins airing Wednesday.
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The U.S.-led war on terrorism is &quot;a  bumper sticker, not a plan&quot; that has weakened Washington&#39;s  global standing, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards  said on Wednesday as he unveiled his defense policy plans.
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Proposed legislation could spell changes across the pharmaceutical world.
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The governors of Illinois and Wisconsin on Monday launched the first state-sponsored program to help residents buy cheaper prescription drugs from both Europe and Canada &#151; despite federal laws banning prescription drug importation.
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Description: The Food and Drug Administration and several major drug makers announce an anti-fraud initiative to put tiny radio tags into the labels of wholesale pill bottles supplied to pharmacies.
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The issue of drug advertising directly aimed at consumers is becoming political.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards on Thursday proposed cutting health care costs by removing patents for breakthrough drugs and requiring health insurance companies to spend at least 85 percent of their premiums on patient care.
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After dismissing the phrase "war on terror" as a useless slogan, former senator John Edwards (D-N.C.) outlined his plan to fight terrorism yesterday.
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News Corp, the media group led by Rupert Murdoch, on Monday announced plans for a poison pill rights issue to prevent a hostile takeover by potential predators such as Liberty Media, one of the company&#39;s largest shareholders.
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Washington -- The government should reassess its policy of allowing prescription drugs to be advertised directly to consumers, a prominent cardiologist urged Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Former Sen. John Edwards said at a  Hurricane Katrina conference he would propose what he called  &quot;Brownie&#39;s Law&quot; requiring that qualified people, not political  hacks, lead key federal agencies.
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Greater numbers of seriously ill patients could get experimental medicines under proposed federal guidelines released Monday that also would allow drug companies to charge for the medicines.
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Health Minister George Smitherman begins to roll out his crackdown plan Friday night, unveiling an ad campaign aimed at young people to get them to stop smoking and to convince them not to start.
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Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry on Thursday accused the Bush administration of enabling U.S. drug companies to raise prices and declare "open season" on American consumers.
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John Edwards built his campaign strategy on the belief that a victory in the Iowa caucuses next January would propel him to front-runner status.
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More patients with serious diseases could get experimental drugs under revised rules proposed on Monday by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that also detail how manufacturers can charge for them.