W.Va., Purdue Pharma reach settlement in Oxycontin lawsuit
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_ The state Attorney General&#39;s Office has settled its lawsuit against Purdue Pharma that accused the company of dishonestly marketing the painkiller OxyContin in West Virginia.
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Genentech appears to have resolved a dispute with ophthalmologists over use of the companyâs drug Avastin to treat eye diseases.
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GlaxoSmithKline Plc, Europe&#39;s largest drugmaker, said it settled a lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who accused the drugmaker last June of withholding safety data on the antidepressant Paxil.
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Bankrupt auto parts maker Delphi Corp  said on Friday it has settled class action lawsuits by shareholders and employees that grew out of financial restatements that were the subject of civil fraud charges the company settled last year.
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Pfizer Inc., the world&#39;s largest drugmaker, agreed to pay $430 million to resolve personal-injury claims against a subsidiary that sold products containing asbestos in the 1970s.
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More than 3,000 former users of Merck & Co's withdrawn Vioxx pain drug have already signed up to take part in a $4.85 billion settlement deal that a federal judge on Friday declared was in the best interests of both sides.
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CHICAGO -- A medical school and a group of about 50 breast cancer patients have agreed to settle a lawsuit over a canceled experimental vaccine program that some patients claimed had kept them alive.
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GlaxoSmithKline PLC agreed Thursday to release information on its drug studies, including negative findings on the antidepressant Paxil, to settle a lawsuit in which New York&#39;s attorney general accused the company of fraud.
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Genentech appears to have resolved a dispute with ophthalmologists over use of  the companyâs drug Avastin   to treat eye diseases.
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Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, said it would begin shipments of the tagged medication this week. Pfizer, the maker of Viagra, said it would begin shipping RFID-tagged bottles by the end of next year.
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The US Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a new Purdue Pharma LP opioid-based drug that aims to provide &quot;around-the-clock&quot; relief to patients with moderate to severe pain.
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Merck & Co. Inc. said on Tuesday   that a federal jury in New Orleans ruled in its favor in a   lawsuit over its withdrawn painkiller Vioxx, in which a   Kentucky man said it caused him to have a heart attack.
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WASHINGTON -- Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline agreed to pay $3.4 billion in the largest tax settlement in IRS history, resolving a dispute from the 1980s over the multinational company's U S profits.
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OXiGENE reaches a deal with FDA on its lead compound.
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The pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to settle consumer fraud charges by posting online both negative and positive results from its clinical drug trials, a practice that New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said should have been made
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DuPont agreed to pay as much as $343 million Thursday to settle allegations the chemical giant contaminated drinking water in West Virginia and Ohio with a key ingredient used in its Teflon products.
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The DuPont Co. agreed to a settlement potentially worth more than $340 million Thursday to resolve allegations the chemical giant contaminated drinking water in West Virginia