Drug firms challenge government
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Drug firms force a judicial review over government plans to  encourage GPs to move patients onto cheaper drugs.
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An investigation has been launched to investigate whether drug firms have been fixing the market to squeeze out copycat medicines
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Despite calls from medical experts and a prominent Republican senator for an independent office to monitor drug safety, the idea is running into obstacles on Capitol Hill.
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The pharmaceutical lobby pushed back Wednesday against a renewed effort in Congress to pass a law enabling U.S. consumers to buy cheaper prescription drugs from Canada and other countries.
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Vermont's Republican governor challenged the Bush administration's prescription drug policy in federal court yesterday, marking the first time a state has chosen a legal avenue in the expanding battle over Canadian imports.
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Drugmakers get part of the job done outside of the U.S.
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Going against their party and industry, a Republican governor and a drug company executive urged Congress yesterday to allow Americans to import prescription drugs from other countries.
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Drugmakers went to the London High Court on Monday to challenge a decision by the medicines cost-effectiveness watchdog NICE to restrict access to Alzheimer's drugs on the state National Health Service.
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Congressional pressure on drug makers and regulators mounted yesterday as the House Energy and Commerce Committee began investigating the approval and recall of Vioxx.
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Drugs wholesalers are seeking an injunction to stop Pfizer changing the way it supplies medicine.
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A month after a new U.S. law  encouraging the development of medicines to counter  bioterrorism, some drugmakers are lobbying for more incentives  to make products that may never be used.
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At a hearing Thursday on Capitol Hill, senators excoriated top federal drug regulators for failing to realize three years ago that Vioxx, a pain pill that Merck withdrew in September, was dangerous.
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the Mecca of Canada&#39;s $800-million-a-year online pharmacy industry - were pleading for their lives yesterday in the face of a government crackdown that
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Calls for changing the way the government monitors drug safety erupted Friday, as consumer advocates and worried patients zeroed in on testimony that five federally approved medicines posed significant health risks.
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OTTAWA (CP) - On the heels of his well-publicized call for medical watchdogs to crack down on doctors working for Internet pharmacies, Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh is asking his provincial counterparts to do their part.
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The strategy of fighting AIDS in Africa with questionable generic drugs made in developing countries now lies in shambles as an Indian company withdrew its medicines last week because it can&#39;t guarantee they are potent enough.
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WASHINGTON &#151; Safety concerns about a GlaxoSmithKline diabetes drug prompted some Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday to rebuke the Food and Drug Administration and call for increased regulation of the pharmaceutical industry.